[APWG] NEWS: Courting Controversy with a New View on Exotic Species

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.e360.yale.edu/content/feature.msp?id=2212

19 Nov 2009: Report
Courting Controversy with
a New View on Exotic Species
A number of biologists are challenging the long-held orthodoxy that 
invasive species are inherently bad for ecosystems. In their contrarian 
view, many introduced species have proven valuable and useful and have 
increased the diversity and resiliency of indigenous environments.
by greg breining

When biologist Mark A. Davis talks about exotic species, he eventually 
comes to LTL, his shorthand for Learn to Love them. Flying in the face of 
the conventional wisdom among biologists that exotic species are harmful 
to native ecosystems, Davis and a small cohort of biologists espouse a 
heretical viewpoint: Exotic species are here to stay, so get used to them, 
and forget about ripping out the fast-spreading shrub, buckthorn, on a 
large scale or throwing Asian carp on the bank to die.

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