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Mallards are very adaptable, being able to live and even thrive in urban areas which may have supported more localised, sensitive species of waterfowl before development. [119] The release of feral mallards in areas where they are not native sometimes creates problems through interbreeding with indigenous waterfowl.
Hoosier National Forest, other agencies and volunteers are mapping where invasive plants are growing in Indiana's Charles C. Deam Wilderness.
Asian bush honeysuckle can choke out native plants and destroy natural food sources for birds and wildlife. Asian bush honeysuckle is one of Indiana's most common invasive plants Skip to main content
This is a list of invasive species in North America.A species is regarded as invasive if it has been introduced by human action to a location, area, or region where it did not previously occur naturally (i.e., is not a native species), becomes capable of establishing a breeding population in the new location without further intervention by humans, and becomes a pest in the new location ...
The Indiana Dunes is an area of land beside Lake Michigan, in the State of Indiana, United States. It includes Indiana Dunes National Park and Indiana Dunes State Park. Non-native plant species, specifically invasive species, have colonized that area. Invasive plants are those plants that aggressively spread throughout an area and out-compete ...
Garlic mustard is one of the first plants to appear in the spring and has earned top rank as one of the states worst invasive plants by the Indiana Invasive Species Council.
The economic impacts of invasive species can be difficult to estimate especially when an invasive species does not affect economically important native species. This is partly because of the difficulty in determining the non-use value of native habitats damaged by invasive species and incomplete knowledge of the effects of all of the invasive species present in the U.S. Estimates for the ...
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) Merganser (Mergus serrator) Mourning dove (Zenaida macroura) Northern flicker (Colaptes auratus) Northern harrier (Circus cyaneus) - tentative; Osprey (Pandion haliaetus) Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) Pinyon jay (Gymnorhinus cyanocephalus) Piping plover (Charadrius melodus)