Nature is adaptive and has translated that quality to all the life that it hosts. Neonative plants are a prime example of such adaptability. Plants that come from other regions often settle in quite comfortably to an area to which they are not native. This ability has led to changing definitions of what it means to categorize a plant as native. As climates change, plants shifting outside their normal range will become commonplace. In some instances, though, this may be problematic.
Plants that establish in areas that they are not indigenous to are often called invasive. This has occurred in cases such as the kudzu vine which was imported to the American south to help stabilize soil. It is native to parts of Asia and has been called the “vine that ate the south.” Efforts to eradicate the plant are consistent, but it has still eaten up much of the native habitat.
It is also possible to have invasive native plants. These are plants that have been found wild in a region for decades or even centuries, but did not originally have a place in the zone. Climate change and native plants are posing questions on which plants are classed as indigenous.
Species ranges are ever-changing as weather patterns force them to move to more hospitable sites. This occurs with our wild fauna as well as flora. Other factors that cause migration are human made changes to topography, and human fueled dispersal. The latter is common, as in the case with the kudzu vine, while the former is an ongoing condition as humans colonize previously wild ranges.
Neonative species are opportunists which take advantage of favorable locations as their previous growing zone becomes less inviting. This causes a redistribution of common biodiversity where one species
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