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Smaller habitats mean even less diversity than scientists thought

August 17, 2020

Researchers recently found that biodiversity on small patches of landscape is even smaller than they expected. While biodiversity forecasts of certain areas are used to inform conservation and management policies, the researchers said those assumptions …

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Invasive species spread in national parks

August 6, 2020

National parks are not out of the woods when it comes to being overrun by invasive species. In fact, invasives have invaded about half of the parks that were created to protect native wildlife and …

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Sea turtles’ navigation systems may put them off course

July 28, 2020

Sea turtles use internal maps to migrate to small, isolated islands, but researchers found the turtles’ navigation systems don’t always guide them with perfect accuracy. While many researchers have studied sea turtle navigation, they mostly …

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Watch: Predatory lizards drive anole extinction

July 12, 2019

Lizard research on tiny experimental islets in the Bahamas shows that prevailing ecological theory regarding the role of predators in ecosystems may not always be correct. Brown anoles (Anolis sagrei) usually exploit the ground area …

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Drones drop toxicants to combat invasive rats

February 8, 2019

On two islands in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, a conservation group is using drones to drop toxicants meant to eliminate invasive rats that are causing problems for native animals and plants. The Island Conservation project began …

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Removing invasive island rats could help coral reefs

August 8, 2018

Invasive rats are notorious for their devastation of island ecosystems, but their damage might go deeper than scientists once believed. Biologists recently discovered that nonnative rats could impede the flow of nutrients from seabirds to …

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