[Coral-List] rats damage coral reefs

Douglas Fenner douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Thu Jul 12 08:39:02 EDT 2018


Nancy Knowlton: How rats wreak havoc on coral reefs (Nature cover photo:
"Booby trap")

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05355-y?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20180712&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180712&spMailingID=56980945&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=1441407842&spReportId=MTQ0MTQwNzg0MgS2

Open-access

original article: Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning
in absence of invasive rats.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0202-3?WT.ec_id=NATURE-20180712&utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20180712&spMailingID=56980945&spUserID=MjA1NTA3MjA0OQS2&spJobID=1441407842&spReportId=MTQ0MTQwNzg0MgS2

Not open-access, note author contact link.

Cheers, Doug

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Douglas Fenner
Contractor for NOAA NMFS Protected Species, and consultant
PO Box 7390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799  USA

Online open-access field guide to 300 coral species in Chagos, Indian Ocean
http://chagosinformationportal.org/corals

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