Create a flyer (Microsoft Word – one page document with graphics and references or PowerPoint Brochure) in which you discuss an invasive species and its impact on the local ecosystem. See the following website for examples: http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/index.shtml
Topics will be assigned during the first worshop.
Determine the impact of this species on the ecosystem where they are deemed invasive.
Include the following in your flyer:
- The organisms, its preferred niche, and what makes the invasive species an effective competitor in the new environment
- Timeframe for invasion (if known) and mode of transport into the ecosystem
- Organisms that are displaced by the invasive species
- Impact on the overall structure and function (energy flow) within the ecosystem. Does this species have any additional impact on the abiotic components of the ecosystem? Identify producers, consumers, and decomposers within your ecosystem and the points were the invasive species impacts the food web.
- Efforts to control the invasive species (regulations and/or physical means). You may also include costs estimates for how the invasive species affects the local ecosystem.
Format your flyer in an appropriate manner for a flyer (single spaced, font no bigger than 10-11 point font, and citations in small font at the bottom, as you might do for footnotes. Please be aware that APA format does NOT work well for a document of this type.