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Home / News / June 8th, 2002; Vol.161 #23 / Plight of the Iguanas: Hidden die-off followed Galápagos spillResidues of oil spilled in the Galapágos Islands in January 2001 may have caused a 60 percent decline in one island's colony of marine iguanas. (p. 357)Published: June 8th, 2002; Vol.161 #23Found in: Ecology -
Marine iguanas in the Galápagos Islands are the first vertebrates known to reduce their size during a food shortage and then regrow to their original body lengths. (p. 20)Published: January 8th, 2000; Vol.157 #2Found in: Ecology -
The biggest effects of climate change during the next 50 years may not be extinctions but major reshuffling of the species in local communities. (p. 230)Published: April 13th, 2002; Vol.161 #15Found in: Ecology
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Home / News / February 23rd, 2002; Vol.161 #8 / Cryptic Invasion: Native reeds harbor aggressive alienA mild-mannered reed native to the United States is getting blamed for the mayhem caused by an evil twin. (p. 118)Published: February 23rd, 2002; Vol.161 #8Found in: Ecology -
Home / News / February 16th, 2002; Vol.161 #7 / Biodiversity Hot Spots: Top 10 sea locales make sobering listBiologists have identified the world's most vulnerable coral reefs, each with organisms found nowhere else and threatened by human influence. (p. 100)Published: February 16th, 2002; Vol.161 #7Found in: Ecology -
Home / News / February 2nd, 2002; Vol.161 #5 / Genetic lynx: North American lynx make one huge familyA new study of lynx in North America suggests the animals interbreed widely, sometimes with populations thousands of kilometers away. (p. 67)Published: February 2nd, 2002; Vol.161 #5Found in: Ecology -
A mistletoe that grows on junipers may do the trees a favor by attracting birds that spread the junipers' seeds. (p. 6)Published: January 5th, 2002; Vol.161 #1Found in: Ecology -
The average size of the largest land animals on each of 25 oceanic islands and five continents strongly depends on the land area there. (p. 343)Published: December 1st, 2001; Vol.160 #22Found in: Ecology -
The first systematic survey of crevices inside Red Sea reefs reveals abundant filter feeders that may capture significant nutrients for the reef. (p. 244)Published: October 20th, 2001; Vol.160 #16Found in: Ecology -
The round goby, a Eurasian fish that has invaded the Great Lakes, is causing the decline of the mottled sculpin by displacing the native from its spawning sites. (p. 166)Published: September 15th, 2001; Vol.160 #11Found in: Ecology -
A test on active longline fishing boats finds that an inexpensive array of streamers can reduce accidental deaths of seabirds by more than 90 percent. (p. 117)Published: August 25th, 2001; Vol.160 #8Found in: Ecology -
New genetic analyses of tropical marine microorganisms hint that some species are converting significant amounts of atmospheric nitrogen into nutrients, helping to fortify the base of the ocean's food pyramid. (p. 85)Published: August 11th, 2001; Vol.160 #6Found in: Ecology
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Hatchery-raised trout can transfer a deadly fungus to western toads, bolstering the view that fish stocking may play a role in amphibian population declines. (p. 71)Published: August 4th, 2001; Vol.160 #5Found in: Ecology -
The largest review yet of wild parrot nesting finds poaching worrisomely frequent but also sees cause for hope in the efects of a U.S. protection law. (p. 343)Published: June 2nd, 2001; Vol.159 #22Found in: Ecology -
When Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, and Irene pummelled North Carolina in the fall of 1999, they delivered a three-punch sequence that may, for years to come, disrupt fishing in the Atlantic Ocean. (p. 293)Published: May 12th, 2001; Vol.159 #19Found in: Ecology
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