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Plant Slurs (mander.xyz)
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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

the fact it's spreading means that it's perfectly adapted for survival in that environment you created, so it's perfect for that pace.

There is such a thing as exotic invasive species that destabilize the local ecosystem, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yes, humans.
    We destabilised to fairly high extend literally all the ecosystems (unless you count battery cage farming as an (artificial) ecosystem, that one boomed, agricultural monocultures too).

    But I'm not just continuing a bit, humans are rally the source of a lot of invasive species introduced to local environments where otherwise that wouldn't happen. And it mostly happened unintentionally, but intentionally too.

    The dif I wanna point out is the scale & timeframes.
    Eg naturally (by which I mean without human involvement) invasive species mostly happen really slowly, and from adjacent ecosystems (sure, there are exceptions, but it's like spiders shooting butt-strings into the air & just by chance floating to Hawaii). Bcs ecosystems overlap, there is no strict boundary for the species.

    And that is what always happened throughout history, it's part of evolution (ever fauna actively transferring various species to new environments).

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