<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Interesting project. Field observations of return of total native prairie underneath a sea of invasive mugwort on Long Island, New York, which had taken over sizable areas of rare oak-brush pine plains owned by NYS Dept of Environmental Conservation. Tracking but no research per se yet, however it would be interesting to compare the vigor of all those naturally emerging species which are apparently outcompeting mugwort with same native species in the local area growing in intact native ecosystem.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 18px/normal 'Lucida Handwriting'; color: rgb(42, 127, 34); ">Karen</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Karen Blumer</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ecologist </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Ecosystem Based Management Projects</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">15 Dickerson Drive</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Shoreham, NY 11786</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">631-821-3337</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:growingwild@optonline.net">growingwild@optonline.net</a></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div>On May 25, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Z. Yeates wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Hello List Subscribers<br>I am a postgraduate researcher at the University of Gloucestershire, researching positive interactions between native and non-native species.<br>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.<br>I am looking for both published (peer-reviewed) research and unpublished research - significant or non-significant results.<br><br>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.<br>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.<br>The positive effects that some non-native species have on other non-native species are also relatively well reported.<br>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<br>species/native biodiversity (e.g. increases in abundance, density, growth, survival, fecundity and ideally, fitness).<br><br>Thank you and regards<br>Zelianne<br><br>-- <br>Zelianne Yeates<br>Postgraduate Researcher<br>Positive Interactions between Non-Native and Native Species<br>Department Natural Sciences<br>University of Gloucestershire<br>Francis Close Hall<br>Swindon Road<br>Cheltenham<br>GL50 4AZ<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>PCA's Alien Plant Working Group mailing list<br><a href="mailto:APWG@lists.plantconservation.org">APWG@lists.plantconservation.org</a><br>http://lists.plantconservation.org/mailman/listinfo/apwg_lists.plantconservation.org<br><br>Disclaimer<br>Any requests, advice or opinions posted to this list reflect ONLY the opinion of the individual posting the message.<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>