Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-07-29 Thread Warren W. Aney
Behalf Of Kirkland, Melissa J NWP Sent: Thursday, 28 July, 2011 09:36 To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE As part of this debate, and I give nod to those that

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-07-28 Thread Wayne Tyson
ve is grounded. WT - Original Message - From: "Kirkland, Melissa J NWP" To: Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2011 9:35 AM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE As part of this debate

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-07-28 Thread Kirkland, Melissa J NWP
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE As part of this debate, and I give nod to those that have declared the original article as over-simplified, there are vast differences in the impacts of "invasive" species that displace desirable species, and non-native species that simply naturalize in a

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-08 Thread Warren W. Aney
Warren W. Aney Tigard, Oregon -Original Message- From: Wayne Tyson [mailto:landr...@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, 07 July, 2011 15:17 To: Warren W. Aney; ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species Warren: How about giving us a rundow

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Buddenhagen
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Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-07 Thread David M. Lawrence
How much of that invasion is "natural," and how much of it is the barred owl taking advantage of our interference with the forest ecosystem, Warren? It's hard to claim the western forests are wildernesses "untouched" by the hand of man. Even patches of relatively unchanged forests are affecte

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-07 Thread Payal Bal
2 301.221.9536 > > --- On Wed, 7/6/11, Christopher M Moore wrote: > > From: Christopher M Moore > Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive > species > To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU > Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 6:30 PM > >

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-07 Thread Ted Hart
I know this is very trivial and adds nothing to the debate, but it represents a stereotype of scientists as one dimensional. The blog post from nature (http://blog.nature.org/2011/06/invasive-species-fight-mark-davis-peter-kareiva/) Opens with the line:"A famous person once observed that the sign

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-07 Thread Warren W. Aney
: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species My wife and I were discussing this topic the other day while hiking through a Maryland park infested with Chinese garlic mustard and Japanese stilt grass (among other invasives). We'd biked past slopes of kudzu and came

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-07 Thread Wayne Tyson
ons, and refutations coming out of this discussion. - Original Message - From: "Christopher M Moore" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 3:30 PM Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species Thanks for the post David. As a newcomer

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-06 Thread Geoffrey Patton
--- On Wed, 7/6/11, Christopher M Moore wrote: From: Christopher M Moore Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU Date: Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 6:30 PM Thanks for the post David. As a newcomer to science (working on m

Re: [ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-06 Thread Christopher M Moore
Thanks for the post David. As a newcomer to science (working on my Ph.D.), there were some lingering questions I had while reading Davis et al. and the responses: Is this how we want to move forward as a science? What does it mean when we resort to gathering signatures? Is this how our scienc

[ECOLOG-L] Responses to Davis_etal..Nature article on invasive species

2011-07-06 Thread David Duffy
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:52:27 + Forwarded from rom: Shyama Pagad on Aliens-L list server Correspondence Nature Vol 475 July 7 2011 -- Non-natives: 141 scientists object We the undersigned feel that in advocating a change in the environmental management of introduced speci