Hey so I get the idea of an invasive species being a species that’s none local to a place and is causing damage to it but can someone please if a species is introduced to an area where it’s not native to but instead of causing harm to the environment or ecosystem is instead actually very beneficial to it is it still considered an invasive species?/Answered but feel free to still respond if you want
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Invasive Species usually only refer to animals and plants that are harmful and unable to be naturally controlled.
For others that generally did not cause major issues it would usually be referred to as simply non-native/exotic/introduced/naturalized. Virtually no introduced species in history have had a net positive impact on the ecosystem except when they are introduced to deal with an invasive species. This is because even if the plant or animal isn’t wildly out of control, there are limited resources in an ecosystem, food, space, light, water, nutrients, etc, and by default the presence of a new species means its taking away resources from another somewhere else.
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