Killing rats could save coral reefs

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SPREP LIBRARY

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Gill, Victoria

British Broadcasting Corporation

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British Broadcasting Corporation

Publication Year:

2018

Publication Place

UNKNOWN

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website

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[EL]

Material Type

Article

Language

English

Record ID:

571

Legacy PEIN ID:

82273

General Notes

BBC Website Science & Environment news article Accessed 6 December 2018

Available online

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Invasive Species

Abstract

Short website news article about rat eradication on Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean and how bird populations increase without rat predation increasing nutrients from bird guano into the coral reefs; cites letter article in Springer Nature - Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning inthe absence of invasive rats, Nichaolas A.J. Graham, Shaun K. Wilson, Peter Carr, Andrew S. Hoey, Simon Jennings, M. Aaron MacNeil https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-018-0202-3

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