Sentence examples for nonnative from inspiring English sources

There were other lower-profile nonnative plants and animals that also provided a degree of ecological services.

Among the few arboreal mammals are two species of nonnative monkeys that flourish in forests of the New Territories, the rhesus macaque and the long-tailed macaque.

Toward the end of the pre-Norman period a few poems on religious, biblical, and other subjects showed acquaintance with nonnative legends.

It does not occur in Florida or coastal parts of Georgia and South Carolina; British Columbia and California have nonnative populations, although Baja California has an indigenous population.

As foreign settlements in the tropics evolved into plantation colonies, their populations grew more by importation than by birth, and model speakers for the newcomers consisted more and more of "seasoned" slaves that is, nonnative speakers who had arrived earlier and acclimated to the region and therefore spoke some approximations of the local colonial varieties of relevant European languages.

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there were tens of thousands of nonnative species in the U.S., but fewer than 10% were actually considered invasive.

Many ecologists and wildlife managers understood that few nonnative species were harmful to the ecosystems to which they were introduced; however, there were those researchers who urged that new introductions of nonnative species err strongly on the side of caution; they held that all nonnative species should be viewed with suspicion until proved innocent from harmful effects.

Although it was perhaps advantageous to remain open to the possibility of the merits of a new and beneficial nonnative species as a source of food or a solution to some limited environmental challenges, it was likely better, given what was known about harmful species invasions, to first study them at great length before welcoming them to new areas.

In some agricultural monocultures, nonnative insect pests have been accidentally introduced along with a crop, but without also bringing along its full range of natural enemies.

For decades Yellowstone's waterways were stocked with fish including three indigenous sport species (cutthroat trout, Arctic grayling, and Rocky Mountain whitefish) and several nonnative species (mainly trout)—but that practice was ended in the 1950s.

In contrast, nonnatives account for less than one-tenth of the residents of some southern districts.