introduced species

The topic introduced species is discussed in the following articles:

conservation and extinction impact

  • TITLE: conservation (ecology)
    SECTION: Introduced species
    The case histories previously discussed often implicate introduced species as a cause of species extinctions. Humans have spread species deliberately as they colonized new areas, just one example being the Polynesians as they settled the eastern Pacific Islands. New Yorkers in the 1890s wanted all the birds in Shakespeare’s works to inhabit the city’s Central Park, and they introduced the...
  • TITLE: conservation (ecology)
    SECTION: Introducing species
    The introductions of Texas pumas into the Florida panther population and of captive-reared condors back into parts of their original habitat were successful, as discussed above. So were the introductions to North America of the starling, also discussed above, and the house sparrow (Passer domesticus), which was introduced to New York City from Europe in the 1850s. What is often...