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Imagine you are a population ecologist who is starting a campaign to control invasive species in your community. Write 3-5 sentences about what you would tell members of your community who come to a meeting to learn about invasive species.

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This is what I would say:

Hello, today I will talk to you about invasive species and why they should be stopped, invasive species are bad for the environment because they destroy other creatures, like if the native species think that it's prey and decide to eat it; it might harm them. For example, if there were trees in a certain environment and an invasive species came along every creature would get hurt because those trees are very tall and they stop sunlight from reaching the ground so that would help to stop invasive plants from growing but if an invasive species of beetles came along they would eat the trees and kill them making sunlight reach the ground. Then it would help the invasive plants to grow, and what would the invasive species of plants do you ask? They would harm the creatures because there are herbivores and they eat plants and since they might think that the plant is toxic because they look like a toxic plant in that environment they will starve and die. Little by little the animals would get harmed because predators eat the herbivores and if there's no food for them they will die, so you see a lot of creatures would get harmed if we don't stop invasive species.

P.S. maybe you should change the words a little because I used this in previous work.

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