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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I’ve thought about the same thing. As others have said “it depends on what you mean by invasive”. Imo, any introduced specimen must be at the very least displacing a native counterpart which until recently did not have that competition.
Maybe some counter examples of you’re interested (North American). Dandelions are often said to be beneficial because they provided some of the first food sources for important pollinators. Honey bees, important pollinators, are mostly introduced. And Earth worms which are important to still development and bird food are introduced.
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