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Appendix B: Additional Major Nonnative Plant and Animal Species in the Everglades
Pages 269-278

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... . In the Everglades, water hyacinth readily invades wetlands, freshwater lakes, and other open-water habitats, where it effectively outcompetes other floating species, and its dense mats shade out submerged aquatic vegetation.
From page 270...
... . If not controlled, torpedograss is likely to impact CERP performance measures in Lake Okeechobee, such as increased native fish recruitment or the recovery of native vegetation (RECOVER, 2014a)
From page 271...
... . This species negatively affects native biodiversity and is one of the few that has been definitively shown to result in native species extirpations, particularly of low-stature forbs in pine savannas of the southeastern United States (Brewer, 2008)
From page 272...
... Biocontrol agents released to control this species have had minimal impact on its abundance. Tropical American Water Grass (Luziola subintegra)
From page 273...
... Gambian pouched rats are established on Grassy Key in the Florida Keys, despite a long-term eradication effort. Although they are currently restricted to Grassy Key, the concern is that they could be inadvertently or deliberately carried to mainland South Florida.
From page 274...
... . Control methods include egg collection and hunting.
From page 275...
... . In the Picayune Strand Restoration Project, the Cuban tree frog colonized and dominates the restored areas, rather than native tree frogs that are found in the reference sites (RECOVER, 2014b)
From page 276...
... , although no research has linked the Mayan cichlid to population-level impacts on native species. The Mayan cichlid and other introduced fish potentially affect various CERP performance measures, such as regional population sizes of fishes, crayfish, grass shrimp, and amphibians.
From page 277...
... First discovered in South Florida in 2009 and rapidly spreading throughout the region, this whitefly attacks and kills many host plants, both native and nonnative, and achieves massive densities (Stocks and Hodges, 2012)


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