[APWG] Positive interactions between native and non-native species

[Z. Yeates]

Hi Bob
Thanks for responding so positively. It is a topic I enjoy researching.
I would love to see your slides, what format is that?
Was this part of a larger project?
Cheers Zeli


On 5/26/2011 3:39 PM, Robert Layton Beyfuss wrote:
> Great project!
> I have a few slides of how wild ginseng was protected from deer browse by growing in a patch garlic mustard. You are welcome to them. I also have slides of goats, horses and sheep greedily devouring Japanese knotweed aka Filipea cuspidatum, formerly Polygonum cuspidatum . It is a preferred food for them.
> Bob
>
>
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> Subject: [APWG] Positive interactions between native and non-native species
>
> Hello List Subscribers
> I am a postgraduate researcher at the University of Gloucestershire,
> researching positive interactions between native and non-native species.
> I would be grateful for any information relating to research that has
> detected a positive association between native species/native
> biodiversity and the presence of a non-native species.
> I am looking for both published (peer-reviewed) research and unpublished
> research - significant or non-significant results.
>
> Although I am interested in all research that has detected a positive
> association between native species/native biodiversity and the presence
> of a non-native species.
> My interest in this subject stems from the fact that most research into
> the impacts of established non-native species has understandably focused
> on the negative effects of invasive species.
> The positive effects that some non-native species have on other
> non-native species are also relatively well reported.
> However, my primary objective, as it stands, is to identify and retrieve
> all (or as many as I can) studies that have uncovered situations where a
> non-native species has (potentially) had a positive (or partially
> positive) effect on a native
> species/native biodiversity (e.g. increases in abundance, density,
> growth, survival, fecundity and ideally, fitness).
>
> Thank you and regards
> Zelianne
>

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Zelianne Yeates
Postgraduate Researcher
Positive Interactions between Non-Native and Native Species
Department Natural Sciences
University of Gloucestershire
Francis Close Hall
Swindon Road
Cheltenham
GL50 4AZ