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Integrating Western Native Plants to East Coast North American Environments

Barnes, H. W. International Plant Propagators' Society, combined proceedings 2007, 57:515-520. 2008.

With today’s considerable interest in native plants there is still much to be learned on how to bring those natives to the forefront of nursery production and utilization in the landscape. When highly desirable natives found in natural environments are displaced and brought into much more foreign locales, the degree of success can be adversely affected. Perhaps the most notable example is the arbitrary movement of high-altitude species to much lower ranges. These transitions are often fraught with difficulties and such difficulties are even more exacerbated by accompanying changes in longitude and latitude. The scope of this paper is to look at some of the problems with regards to particular species and possible suggestions on how to increase survival of non-endemic Western species to East coast environments.


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Author(s): H. W. Barnes

Section: Diverse Species