The Native Plant Enthusiasm: Ecological panacea or xenophobia?

̈ning, Gert Gro; Wolschke‐Bulmahn, Joachim

doi:10.1080/01426390306536

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“…So the emission tip radius (R) of our sample would be of the order of few nanometers (considering the sharp emission tip diameter are almost 10% of the particle size) and assuming the height of the post (L) is equal to the film thickness, the approximate b-value obtained for our sample was around 220. This value of b falls within the range (150-300) predicted by Gro¨ning et al [52], for their N-doped DLC films and they stated that this type of b-values were not unusual even on mirror-like polished copper samples. So the local work function comes out $0.15 eV.…”

Section: Article In Pressmentioning

confidence: 49%

Electro-optical characteristics and field-emission properties of reactive DC-sputtered p-CuAlO2+x thin films

Banerjee

Ghosh

Das

et al. 2005

Physica B: Condensed Matter

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Section: Article In Pressmentioning

confidence: 49%

Electro-optical characteristics and field-emission properties of reactive DC-sputtered p-CuAlO2+x thin films

Banerjee

Ghosh

Das

et al. 2005

Physica B: Condensed Matter

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“…Perhaps the most common and general criticism is that invasion biologists often undermine their scientific and moral credibility through the outward use emotive and/or militaristic terms (e.g., ''alien invaders,'' ''noxious species,'' ''biological pollution,'' ''war against invaders'') to describe INS and explain rationales for control programs (e.g., Jordan 1994;Gobster 2005;Larson 2005). More provocative commentators argue that such a vocabulary is not just scientifically suspect, but that it also reveals deep parallels between the tenets of invasion biology and xenophobia, nationalism, and even Nazism (e.g., Groning and Wolschke-Bulmahn 2003;Theodoropolous 2003). Theodoropolous (2003), one of the most outspoken and controversial critics of INS control, goes so far as to suggest that such language exposes invasion biology as a propaganda-based ''pseudoscience'' that cynically uses fear-mongering about nonnative species for the purpose of attracting funds to university programs, regulatory agencies, and pesticide manufacturers.…”

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confidence: 96%

Adaptive Management of Nonnative Species: Moving Beyond the “Either-Or” Through Experimental Pluralism

Evans

Wilkie

Burkhardt

2008

J Agric Environ Ethics

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This paper develops the outlines of a pragmatic, adaptive management-based approach toward the control of invasive nonnative species (INS) through a case study of Kings Bay/Crystal River, a large artesian springs ecosystem that is one of Florida's most important habitats for endangered West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus). Building upon recent critiques of invasion biology, principles of adaptive management, and our own interview and participant-observer research, we argue that this case study represents an example in which rigid application of invasion biology's a priori imperative to minimize INS has produced counterproductive results from both an ecological and social standpoint. As such, we recommend that INS control in Kings Bay should be relaxed in conjunction with an overall program of adaptive ecosystem management that includes meaningful participation and input from non-institutional stakeholders. However, we also note that adaptive management and INS control are by no means mutually exclusive, in Kings Bay or elsewhere. Instead, we suggest that adaptive management offers a means by which INS control efforts can emerge from-and be evaluated throughongoing scientific research and participatory dialogue about the condition of specific places, rather than non-contextual assumptions about the harmfulness of INS as a general class.

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“…Consider the spread of North American lawn turf grasses, almost all of which are exotic and many of which are aggressive (Robbins and Sharp 2003). As most of the contributors to this issue emphasize, echoing assertions in environmental history and the biosciences, this interpretation and assignment of meaning is value laden (Groning and Wolschke-Bulmahn 2003).…”

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Comparing Invasive Networks: Cultural and Political Biographies of Invasive Species

Robbins¹

2004

Geographical Review

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ABSTRACT. Under what cultural and political conditions do certain species become successful invaders? What impact does species invasion have on human culture and politics? The work assembled in this special issue of the Geographical Review suggests complex interspecies interactions that complicate any answer to these questions. It demonstrates the need to advance a more integrative human/environment approach to species invasion than has hitherto been seen. Reviewing the concepts demonstrated in these articles and applying them to case histories of Mimosaceae (a family that includes genera such as Acacia, Prosopis, and Mimosa) invasion, two general principles become clear. The status and identification of any species as an invader, weed, or exotic are conditioned by cultural and political circumstances. Furthermore, because the human “preparation of landscape” is a prerequisite for most cases of invasion, and because species invasions impact local culture and politics in ways that often feed back into the environmental system, specific power‐laden networks of human and non‐human actors tend to create the momentum for invasion. It is therefore possible to argue a more general cultural and political account of contemporary species expansion: It is not species but sociobiological networks that are invasive.

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The Native Plant Enthusiasm: Ecological panacea or xenophobia?

Cited by 29 publications

References 3 publications

Electro-optical characteristics and field-emission properties of reactive DC-sputtered p-CuAlO2+x thin films

Electro-optical characteristics and field-emission properties of reactive DC-sputtered p-CuAlO2+x thin films

Adaptive Management of Nonnative Species: Moving Beyond the “Either-Or” Through Experimental Pluralism

Comparing Invasive Networks: Cultural and Political Biographies of Invasive Species

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