New paper on island-ocean connections published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2122354119
With a collaborative interdisciplinary team led by Scripps Institute of Oceanography and the non-profit Island Conservation, our new perspectives article argues that island eradications of invasive mammals such as feral goats, European wild boar, and rats also benefit marine nearshore ecosystems. We need to take cues from indigenous island societies, who managed islands from ‘ridge to reef’, to restore the linkages that benefit flora, fauna, and ecosystems integrity, both on land and in the sea.

At right, Diversity of terrestrial ecosystem changes that have been documented to follow island introduction of invasive mammals such as pigs, rats, and goats. The ecosystem changes are linked to the ecology of the invasive mammal, and some of the stereotyped shifts are captured. Credit: re:wild. (Full article @ Scripps)

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