Invasive Species

What happens when an animal ends up in an environment in which it doesn?t belong?and begins taking over its new habitat? The series Invasive Species combines young readers? love for animals and organisms with information about local habitats and ecosystems. Case studies reveal the intricate relationships between animals and their environment. Comparing invasive plants, bugs, and creatures across continents, readers will evaluate the relationships between organisms and their habitats, as well as how these interactions play out across species and between people and the natural world. Readers are presented with the problems and countermeasures against the invasions and are invited to imagine solutions of their own.
EACH BOOK CONTAINS:
? Full-color images of invasive species, natural species, and colonized habitats
? An invasion diagram of a species threatening its new ecosystem
? A map of the world featuring invasive species plaguing each continent
? Fact sheets on the most notorious invasive species
CURRICULUM CONNECTIONS:
? Examines the features, adaptations, and behaviors that enable animals and other organisms to survive
? Explores how insects and animals adapt to their environments
? Compares species to catalog differences that enable advantages at survival and reproduction
? Prompts readers to create solutions to the problems invasive species pose to other organisms, their environment, and to humans