Invasive Species Jeopardize Already Threatened Island Animals (9 of 12) (IMAGE)

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Invasive Species Jeopardize Already Threatened Island Animals (9 of 12)

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Infographic describing some of the numbers involved in the extinctions of island dwelling vertebrates. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 25, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by D.R. Spatz at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) in Santa Cruz, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Globally threatened vertebrates on islands with invasive species."

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Island Conservation

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