<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=278826.msg13724815#msg13724815">Quote from: Evergreen on 03-12-2017, 23:11:50</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Spoiler: Click to Show/Hide</div><div class="spoiler_body">Nerd fact!<br/><br/>As a biologist, I can't help myself but think of this as a prime example of today's invasive species problem. <br/><br/>If anyone is familiar with the Japanese Knotweed? A single plant arrived at the Royal Botanical Gardens Kew (England) in August 1850 from Japan, mostly because of its pretty flowers (https://i.imgur.com/OyOVe0Z.png). From there it spread over whole Europe. it consumes everything in it’s path (https://i.imgur.com/4TSGhQQ.png) No autochthonic species can compete with it.<br/><br/>Alien species are, by definition, taxa that are introduced outside of their natural range either intentionally or unintentionally by human actions. Humans have traded and transported alien species for millennia with two notable step-changes: the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Post-1950, technical and logistic improvements have accelerated the ease with which commodities are transported across the globe and hindered the traceability of goods and the ease of intercepting pests. New sea, land and air links in international trade and human transport have established novel pathways for the spread of alien species (Hulme, P., 2009; Jurnal of Applied Ecology).<br/><br/>Give it a year or two and this Moonflower will cover New Heart :P</div></div></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>I'd never heard of that, but I am getting my marine bio degree and god the lionfish problem in the Caribbean is something I've heard a lot about and it's the same damn thing but with pretty fish. They breed stupid fast, they are great predators of other fish, and they're poison so nothing in the region knows how to feed on them...<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=278826.msg13725224#msg13725224">Quote from: Dhi on 04-12-2017, 01:48:48</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">Tell us about Gaz!<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>Yeah, share with the class.