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A 3 page paper which reacts to the article Invading the Pacific: Biological and Cultural Dimensions in Invasive Species in the Pacific Region by James Russell as it involves the historical aspect of invasive species. No additional sources cited.
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and their connection to one another species would migrate, pass along, invade other lands and alter the environment. But, from a historical perspective one must look at invasive species as
humanity is involved for it speaks of history and history is related to humanity and recorded history. The following paper examines the role of invasive species in historical ecology as
seen in the article Invading the Pacific: Biological and Cultural Dimensions in Invasive Species in the Pacific Region by James Russell. Invasive Species According to Russell (2004), as it
relates to the Pacific Islands, there was an increase in Western influence and arrival and "Island economies struggled to meet these demands and, following marginalization and exploitation, were subsequently forced
to intensify and specialize their production. Confounding this dilemma is that Western society commonly attempts to dominate its environment, and island systems are much more susceptible to poor conservation practice"
(81). This is but one definition of how there has been an invasion of species that would involve the historical ecology. Russell speaks of Easter Island, for example, illustrating
how it once possessed trees but through the years, or centuries, of human involvement all such life was gone forever through warfare and human interaction. Russell also illustrates how the
simplest thing like a rat can affect the entire ecosystem of a region and that "Only recently has the full extent of the impacts of the Polynesian rats on island
fauna begun to be acknowledged" (79). What this information tells the reader is that through human arrival, interaction, colonization, conquest many environmental things have changed and in most cases
there will be no record of what perhaps existed prior to such events. With the arrival of people on ships came new seeds, new creatures, new disease, and thus each
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