HNES Native Species Gardens Misrepresentation and Dismissal of Exotic

Public green spaces argon complementary areas in urban centers, designed to create recreational space for public use and cultivate-natural scenery. at that place are many public green spaces on York Universitys Keele campus such as the woodlots, the green roof near Ross building, Passy garden, Maloca community garden, and HNES primordial Species tend. The Native Species Garden is a naturalization project founded in 2005, in front of the Health, nursing and Environmental Studies building. The project led by Dr. Gerda Wekerle and various members of the Environmental Studies Faculty, and thousand management staff to propagate native species as there are many exotic species on campus. Although, the objective is pure and beneficial to the bionomics of the campus, the ramifications are lacklustre. The garden invites xenophobic principles, formulates stereotypes and cultivates misinformation about exotic species. The purpose of this probe is to discuss the different images of exotic s pecies and the integration of these species into public green spaces on campus.Exotic species -sometimes invasive- are organisms either moved via human disturbances or geologic and meteorological events, often displacing species from their habitat. Yet, the word invasive is attached to exotics as a negative construct without considering advantages or disadvantages of the plants to humans and the environment. The story of exotic species is lettered as a militaristic metaphor and Larson (2008) confers, We have made an foeman of invasive species to justify controlling and subjugating them(p 16). One example is Garlic leaf mustard, a herb species native to Europe and some parts of Asia mainly apply as spice. According to Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (2012), Garlic M... ...raphical Review 94.2 (2004) 178-198. EBSCO Host. Web. 15 Nov. 2013.Larson, Brendan. Friend, Foe, Wonder, Peril. resource Journals. 34.1 (2008) 14-17. EBSCO Host. Web. 14 Nov. 2013.Schetter, Timothy A., T imothy L. Walters, and Karen V. Root. A Multi-scale Spatial Analysis of Native and Exotic Plant Species Richness Within a Mixed-Disturbance Oak savannah Landscape.Environmental Management 52.3 (2013) 581-584. EBSCO Host. Web. 16 Nov. 2013.Stinson, Kristina, Sylvan Kaufman, Luke Durbin, and Frank Lowenstein. Impacts Of Garlic Mustard Invasion On A Forest Understory Community. Northeastern Naturalist 14.1 (2007) 73-88. EBSCO Host. Web. 13 Nov. 2013.Terrestrial Invasive Species.Biodiversity. Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, 4 Sept. 2013. Web. 13 Nov. 2013. .