Barcode Long Island Team Team Phragmitie Phreaks
Program:
Barcode Long Island
Year:
2016-17
Research Topic:
Biodiversity & trade
Taxonomic Group Studied:
Plants

Project:

Barcoding Long Island Phragmites DNA Proposal
Students:
Isabelle Reed, Jessica Hunt, Andrew Gerrain
School:
massapequa high school - Ames campus, Nassau
Mentors:
Nicole Gonzalez

Abstract:

Phragmites has been proven to be an invasive species which highly impact the surrounding ecosystems. Invasive species are a group of organisms that invade the areas of other specimens and use many of the resources around them, causing there to be low populations of other species in the same area. This usually causes the biodiversity in an area to be much lower since the invasive species obtain the nutrients necessary for the native species survival. With the increasing population of various invasive species throughout much of Long Island, many organisms will soon become endangered or extinct. The organisms collected were within a radius of 6 inches from a permanent structure and the phragmites plant to show the amount of species and the population of these species affected due to the fact that the phragmites use many natural resources needed for their survival. Phragmites is also capable of affecting human and other organism’s lives. Salt-marsh dependent organisms such as typha will

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