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Literature Review: Alien Invasive Species

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Alien invasive species
In today’s world, many areas have become urbanized and natural areas have become fragmented due to human interference (Alston and Richardson 2006). This in turn has caused many interfaces between the urbanized world and the natural landscape (Alston and Richardson 2006) which most of the time have negative impacts on the natural environments (Alston and Richardson 2006) such as pollution and invasion of exotic species.
A species has to pass a few criteria before it can be considered an alien invasive species, not just for the reasoning that the species was not originally from that area (Richardson et al. 2000). A species is considered to be an exotic species once it has been brought into an area that it was not established in previously by humans, either by accident or intentionally (Richardson et al. 2000, and Alston and Richardson 2006). Once a species has been brought into a new area, it is only if that species can create a large number of offspring that can survive far away from the parents whether humans try to interfere or not can it be considered to be an alien invasive species (Richardson et al. 2000).
Contributing factors for seed dispersal
Invasive plants that can use birds as their main form of dispersal are the species that can quickly become problematic (Gosper et al. 2005). Invasive plants make …show more content…

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