When native island animals vanish, plants lose their seed carriers. This shift weakens forests, water systems, and local ...
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Bird-mediated plant colonization overturns long-held assumptions about how plants spread to islands
When the volcanic island of Surtsey rose from the North Atlantic Ocean in 1963, it offered scientists a once-in-a-lifetime ...
On islands, many plants rely on animals such as birds, bats and reptiles to disperse their seeds and help them grow in new places. When native animals go extinct, this naturally reduces seed dispersal ...
A new study from Iceland’s Surtsey island shows that birds carried most of the plants that colonised the island, overturning ...
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With clams, glue and a modified treadmill, scientists work to restore eelgrass in Long Island Sound
WESTBROOK - From a small boat idling near a breakwater in the Long Island Sound, Rob Vasiluth feeds large metal trays of ...
Volunteers gathered in Clinton on Wednesday with the goal of restoring more eelgrass to the Long Island Sound. Their method was to glue eelgrass seeds onto clams. About 20,000 seeds were then put in ...
"These fruits are not edible. In fact, they're poisonous," Tunnell wrote in his weekly Beachcombing Report, after finding ...
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