One Data Point Can Predict Collapse of an Entire Ecosystem; Scientist Want Fisheries Test
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Science Magazine] by Gabriel Pipkin - May 17, 2017
Catastrophic ecosystem failures can destroy industries and threaten food supplies—just think of the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fisheries in the early 1990s or insect outbreaks that devastated Northern spruce and fir forests in the 1970s. Now, a new study promises a way to predict—and possibly head off—the collapse of species that support those ecosystems, with just one measurement.
For years, scientists studying lakes and other ecosystems ...
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