tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830232140950152289.post5393973913359283744..comments2024-03-28T11:26:51.795-07:00Comments on Natural History Journal: Invasive Species: European BeachgrassSiera Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13858773211829855612noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830232140950152289.post-91500940467362482932020-12-10T11:07:31.431-08:002020-12-10T11:07:31.431-08:00That is interesting! Thanks for sharing! That is interesting! Thanks for sharing! Siera Nystromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858773211829855612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830232140950152289.post-26669470101013822632020-12-10T04:30:14.506-08:002020-12-10T04:30:14.506-08:00Interesting hypothesis, although it turns out A. ...Interesting hypothesis, although it turns out A. arenaria has been known to be an excellent ecosystem engineer in Europe for hundreds of years. The English naturalist John Leonard Knapp for example, considered it to be a great terraformer. One other interesting thing is that it seems the eastern species (A. breviligulata) was actually tested in Oregon in the 1930s, where it became invasive and has actually been supplanting A. arenaria ;-) Karma in a way I suppose. BanyanWandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11670269057329577541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830232140950152289.post-62899533759819747462020-12-09T11:41:55.667-08:002020-12-09T11:41:55.667-08:00Thank you for your comment and for sharing your bl...Thank you for your comment and for sharing your blog! On my first visit to an Atlantic Coast beach during the summer of 2019, I noticed the native grasses on the dunes - beautiful and totally different from what I'm used to! I wonder if someone in the 19th century was familiar with the grasses of the Atlantic Coast and thought, hey, we should plant something like that on the Pacific Coast too... since it looks like it belongs on the dunes, even though it's not native and the Pacific Coast dunes host an entirely different assemblage of plants... But hey, this introduced grass should do the trick... And the trouble with invasives began! <br />Thanks again for sharing!Siera Nystromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13858773211829855612noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2830232140950152289.post-86563024757428338932020-12-09T06:11:43.561-08:002020-12-09T06:11:43.561-08:00Interestingly enough, here in the East Coast a gra...Interestingly enough, here in the East Coast a grass from the same genus called Ammophila breviligulata (American Beach Grass) is planted en masse for the goal of stabilizing dunes and protecting the beach. Without that grass the beach would disappear over time due to erosion, is the thinking.<br /><br />https://poasession.blogspot.com/2019/10/american-beach-grass-ammophila.html<br /> BanyanWandererhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11670269057329577541noreply@blogger.com