BIOL 1070 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Alliaria Petiolata, Shade Tolerance, Understory

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIOL 1070
• Professor: Shoshanah Jacobs

Document Summary

Garlic mustard (allaria petiolata) - a highly successful non-native understory forest plant. Biological invasions are an extremely important cause of extinction and biodiversity loss. In the case of garlic mustard, this is even more concerning since it is shade tolerant and so can survive the forest understory. Garlic mustard is moving in: alliaria petiolata as a member of eastern north. American forests. there may have been several independent introductions from. Europe to north america - but there was an independent colony established in new. Garlic mustard has been in north america longer than there has been a canada. Garlic mustard as a suite of characteristics that make it a successful invader - and now that it is here - it is altering forest composition and productivity. Communities of organisms change all the time - invasive species are not necessarily bad, nor is invasion an inherently degrading process.