Ecolog:
Well, yes, but it's a matter of DEGREE. In "Trees and Shrubs of the
Witwatersand," the author had to resort to cemeteries to find many native
plants. Refugia may be better than nothing in some cases, however, and the
cumulative effects can amount to "scale,"
whatever that means in any given context.
WT
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From: "Paul Cherubini" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Arguments for Native Plants
Vast stretches of the USA and southern Canada are already
dominated by non-natives and have been for a century or more.
So adding natives to the landscaping of a new residential subdivision
or industrial park is generally a largely symbolic gesture, not one that
will significantly offset landscape scale declines in native pollinators
caused by the sprawl itself.
Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.
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