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WEEK 4: Invasion ecology is the study of the human-mediated introduction of organisms, especially introductions to areas outside the potential range of given organisms as defined by their natural dispersal mechanisms and biogeographical barriers (Davis, 2006; Mack et al., 2000; Richardson & Pysek, 2006). The field addresses all aspects relating to the introduction of organisms, their ability to establish, naturalize and invade in the target region, their © 2008 The Authors Journal compilation © 2008 Blackwell Publishing Ltd interactions with resident organisms in their new location, and the consideration of costs and benefits of their presence and abundance with reference to human value systems (Richardson & van Wilgen, 2004; Pysek et al., 2006; Richardson, 2006).

WEEK 3: — Preceding unsigned comment added by MeghanConnolly22 (talk • contribs) 15:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC) Article Evaluation: Article Read: Introduced Species (non-native species)

- The opening sentence is great and sums up the definition of what a non-native species is and how it came about, and also what it does. - I like how in the article is associated with the other names that a non-native species may be called such as, an alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or an introduced species.

Questions: - The information in the article is not very long, which makes it very to the point. The article gets right to the topic and doesn't have a lot of fluff or other information that would distract the reader. - The article has a neutral point of view since the topic isn't really something to have an opinion on, it is just explaining in a definition sense. - The definition of what the invasive/non-invasive species is is a little over represented, it is explained over and over multiple times. I feel like the definition and what it is could be stated less. - 4 out of the 6 random citation links i clicked on did not work and came up as an "404 error page not found" which leads me to believe that not all of the citation links even work. The 2 links out of the 6 that did work and the source did support the claims in the article. - Not every single fact is referenced, but the ones that are and the links that do work are usually journal articles that are reliable. - I believe that some of the information could be out of date because some of the citation links don't even work. More reliable and working links could be added, updating the article and making the information more recent. - There was lots of fights going on in the talk page of this article and it was very long so I didn't read it all. It was basically arguments about things being wrong, no or not working references, and incorrect naming and definitions. - The article was rated a B Class on the quality scale, and of High Importance. It is also part of a WikiProject. The article is within the scope of WikiProject Plants, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of plants and botany on Wikipedia and is ranked a B Class for quality, and a Middle B Class for importance. - This topic doesn't really differ from the way we have talked about it in class, because a non-native species will always have the same meaning. The difference is that in class we have talked about non-native species within the context of research papers and this article discusses exactly what a non-native species is in all aspects, instead of just one aspect.

- The one question I have is that why does non-native species have to have so many different names for the same thing? Why cant it just be always consistently called the same name? MeghanConnolly22 (talk) 14:47, 28 March 2018 (UTC) meghan