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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. Environmental Problems: Invasive Species
Inc. by K. Von Huben 5/2010 Please Introduction Invasive species-species not native to a particular environment but somehow now located there-are
not good for that environment. This paper discusses the ecological nature of this problem and possible solutions. Discussion Humans move other species, inadvertently and deliberately, far beyond their native habitats
(Vitousek et al, 1997). Many of these introduced or invasive species flourish in their new habitat and become established there, often killing off or crowding out the species that are
indigenous to the area (Vitousek et al, 1997). The "list of established introduced species grows annually, as does the number of them that cause significant economic and ecological effects" (Vitousek
et al, 1997, p. 1). One of the most notorious is the Eurasian zebra mussel, which was introduced into North America via the ballast water systems of ships coming into
the Great Lakes Basin from the Atlantic (Vitousek et al, 1997). Once they arrived the mussels spread rapidly, and had enormous environmental and economic consequences. For one thing, they
are hardy; they "grow and produce rapidly" and cover "river and lake bottoms and municipal and industrial water inlets" (Vitousek et al, 1997, p. 1). In 1997, when this article
was written, it had already cost approximately $2 billion (U.S. dollars) to clear inlet pipes blocked by the mussels (Vitousek et al, 1997). In addition to blocking pipes, the mussels
"alter populations of algae and the concentrations of nutrients in whole ecosystems" (Vitousek et al, 1997, p. 1). Altering nutrients has the potential to destroy entire systems, and the mussels
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