The Invasion of the Florida Everglades Ecosystem by the Brazilian Peppe

The Invasion of the Florida Everglades Ecosystem by the Brazilian Pepper It was as if the class had just stepped out onto the moon the way the limestone craters pockmarked the countrys surface. It looked roughly uninhabitable indeed Yet, here and there tufts of sawgrass had naturally reseeded and sprung up to refine the land. Like the American flag hoisted in place by Neil Armstrong on the moon, the tufts of sawgrass seemed to be saying, One small step for sawgrass, one giant parachute for the Everglades ecosystem Indeed, to witness the success of the Hole-in-the-Donut Restoration Project is like being the skipper of a boat lost at sea catching a break in the fog long enough to glimpse a beacons light before it becomes shrouded again in the mist of politics, economics and bureaucracy. Yet, that draft glimpse of light is enough to encourage even me, an increasingly distrustful and apathetic environmentalist, to trudge on. Before this seemingly barren lunar landscape painting emerged, the first invasive exotic species to colonize what would later be called the Hole-in-the-Donut celestial sphere were a group of Homosapiens sapiens subsp. agricultis , otherwise kn suffer as farmers. after(prenominal) the last of the farmers left in the early 1970s, they left behind a rock-plowed, slightly elevated patch of land pregnant with nutrients otherwise not known in the mesic prairie wetlands that originally occupied this space. Thus, the scene was bushel for one of the most destructive vegetative invasions seen in the Everglades ecosystem thus far. The the States came from Brazil and was crafty enough to get its enemy to use its own resources to advance its invasion. Its weapon clusters of bright red berries that enticed the likes of Florida s state bird the mockingbird, cedarwood wax... ...con. Bot . 32 p. 354. 6) Morton, JF. 1978. Brazilian pepper, its impact on people, animals, and the environment. Econ. Bot . 32 p. 354. 7) Workman, R, ed. 1978. Schinus skillful proceedings of techniques for envision of Schinus in south Florida A store for natural area managers. Tech. report. Sanibel (FL) The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Inc. pg. 1. 8) Workman, R, ed. 1978. Schinus Technical proceedings of techniques for control of Schinus in south Florida A workshop for natural area managers. Tech. report. Sanibel (FL) The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Inc. pg. 19. 9) Workman, R, ed. 1978. Schinus Technical proceedings of techniques for control of Schinus in south Florida A workshop for natural area managers. Tech. report. Sanibel (FL) The Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation, Inc. pg. 19.