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IMAGE: A Booby chick sits on a nest on a rat-free island in the Indian Ocean view more
Credit: Professor Nick Graham, Lancaster University
Scientists have provided the first evidence to show that eradicating rats from tropical islands effects not just the biodiversity on the islands, but also the fragile coral seas that surround them.
The new study led by scientists at Lancaster University and published in the journal
Current Biology shows that critical cycles of seabird nutrients flowing to coral reefs are re-established within relatively short time periods after rats are removed - even around islands that have been infested for hundreds of years.
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