Ecosystems Change Long before Species Are Lost (IMAGE)

Rice University

Ecosystems Change Long before Species Are Lost

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Rice University researchers studied 35,000 creatures pulled from dozens of miniature environments to gauge the effects of changes within populations of dragonflies and diving beetles on their environments. The results, they said, show that changes to an ecosystem appear long before a species disappears entirely.

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Rudolf Lab/Rice University

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