Talk:Kudzu in the United States

Kudzu in Califorina
I have seen Kudzu growing along, and out onto Brea Canyon Road, in Orange County California.--Subman758 (talk) 20:10, 19 August 2010 (UTC)

Expansion of environmental impact of kudzu
The environmental impacts of kudzu should be better stated - currently they are alluded to but not specifically mentioned. Its ability to choke out trees/forests and colonize disturbed habitats can be mentioned.Bkmertz (talk) 01:28, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

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Rate of Growth
The introduction says that the growth is now expected to be 2.5K acres per year, but in the article it talks about 50K acres per year. Which figure is better established? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jdfoote (talk • contribs) 21:20, 22 April 2016 (UTC)

Differing Units
The article should not switch between acres and hectares. Area should probably be given in acres as this is the most common land area unit in the United States. Either way constancy would be nice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.85.227.109 (talk) 04:42, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Ecological Relationships
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 * "While little research has been conducted on the impacts of plant invasion on atmospheric conditions, a study conducted at Stony Brook University in New York shows that kudzu has increased the concentration of atmospheric NOx in the eastern United States, which causes a 2 ppb increase in tropospheric ozone during high temperature events in addition to soil acidification, aluminum mobilization, and leaching of NO3- into aquatic ecosystems."

should be altered in some way. The study states that the 2 ppb increase in tropospheric ozone is according to their 'extreme scenario' for 2050. From the referenced study, "Kudzu invasion causes ozone concentrations to increase by up to 2 ppb during these high temperature events (Fig. S2)" and Fig. S2 states, "Results are from the GEOS-Chem model for 2050’s climate conditions."

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misleading US Forest Service paragraph
The paragraph which began "Recent U.S. Forest Service information indicates that kudzu is much less of a problem than previously thought." is referenced as coming from Smithsonian Magazine. Unfortunately the author of that article gave no references (at least, not in the on-line version) to show where he got his data from. A review of USFS publications that were "recent" at the time of that article does not show any with the figures given. In addition, USFS publications consistantly refer only to forested lands. As is well known, kudzu prefers sunny locations and grows poorly if at all in pine forests. Thus I beleive the Smithsonian author has taken numbers in a USFS publication out-of-context, and assumed that a reference to the spread of kudzu on forested lands applied to all lands in the southeast. Out-of-context data will be confusing and misleading to the casual reader, therefor it seems best to remove the sentence.

"Fire-based" methods?
In this article, "fire based" control methods are mentioned. Are there really fire-based methods *other than burning* being used? If burning is a method, then say "burning", not "fire based methods". TooManyFingers (talk) 20:27, 19 September 2020 (UTC)

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