Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Introducing Eucalyptus Trees

Eucalyptus trees are located in the tropic and subtropical regions. There about 700 different species of eucalyptus trees and most are native to the Australia.
The benefits of this technology are that we can now have a certain plant be growing all year round and not have to worry when it is in season. Secondly we would have a substantial more amount of forest and oil’s.
Some potential intrinsic concerns are that tree does not belong in some ecosystems; the tree requires a lot of water. It being place somewhere temporarily is not a bad idea.
Some potential extrinsic concerns are that the eucalyptus will be an invasive species to new ecosystems. It can dry up different locations and cause other species to suffer who would normally thrive on that particular ecosystem.
I do not believe there are reasonable steps to take to mitigate these risks. It is pretty hard to actually tell the outcome of introducing these species into an ecosystem. You can take some precautions but you will never really know the outcome until you actually introduce it.  
Depending on the situation of the ecosystem the benefits weigh themselves base on the outcome, if get what was accomplished then you benefit but if you don’t succeed then you lose a lot. It is either a win-win or a lose-lose situation.  

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