HNES Native Species Gardens Misrepresentation and Dismissal of Exotic

Public blue jet infinites atomic number 18 complementary areas in urban centers, designed to create recreational space for public use and cultivate-natural scenery. There are many public green spaces on York Universitys Keele campus such as the woodlots, the green roof near Ross building, Passy garden, Maloca companionship garden, and HNES Native Species Garden. The Native Species Garden is a naturalization project founded in 2005, in front of the Health, Nursing and Environmental Studies building. The project led by Dr. Gerda Wekerle and various members of the Environmental Studies Faculty, and grounds management staff to propagate native species as there are many exotic species on campus. Although, the mark is pure and beneficial to the ecology of the campus, the ramifications are lacklustre. The garden invites xenophobic principles, formulates stereotypes and cultivates misinformation nearlywhat exotic species. The purpose of this essay is to discuss the different images of exotic species and the desegregation of these species into public green spaces on campus.Exotic species -sometimes invasive- are organisms either locomote via human disturbances or geological and meteorological events, often displacing species from their habitat. Yet, the word invasive is attached to exotics as a negative construct without considering advantages or disadvantages of the plants to valet de chambre and the environment. The story of exotic species is learned as a militaristic fable and Larson (2008) confers, We have made an enemy of invasive species to justify controlling and subjugating them(p 16). unmatchable example is ail Mustard, a herb species native to Europe and some parts of Asia mainly used as spice. According to Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (2012), Garlic M... ...raphical Review 94.2 (2004) 178-198. EBSCO Host. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.Larson, Brendan. Friend, Foe, Wonder, Peril. Alternative Journals. 34.1 (2008) 14-17. EBSCO Host. Web. 14 Nov. 2013 .Schetter, Timothy A., Timothy L. Walters, and Karen V. Root. A Multi-scale Spatial Analysis of Native and Exotic Plant Species Richness in spite of appearance a Mixed-Disturbance Oak Savanna Landscape.Environmental Management 52.3 (2013) 581-584. EBSCO Host. Web. 16 Nov. 2013.Stinson, Kristina, country Kaufman, Luke Durbin, and Frank Lowenstein. Impacts Of Garlic Mustard Invasion On A timberland Understory Community. Northeastern Naturalist 14.1 (2007) 73-88. EBSCO Host. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.Terrestrial Invasive Species.Biodiversity. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 4 Sept. 2013. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. .