If nature (or God) designed these niches to be "unused," then maybe that's
the way they should stay.
Chris Scharpf
Baltimore
> From: Jay DeLong <thirdwind_at_att.net>
> Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 08:32:47 -0800
> To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
> Subject: Re: NANFA-- Devils advocate concerning release of exotics.
>
> Niches are not management concepts, but instead explain how ecosystems work
> and how species come to occupy their places in them. Adding species to
> fill "unused" niches will certainly determine the future direction of the
> evolution of that ecosystem. What's wrong with low diversity aquatic
> systems? They're pretty interesting ecosystems in their own right with
> unique species and species interactions-- like sand dunes or lava fields in
> the terrestrial world.
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