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As birds go down, spiders go up on the island of Guam (and the press has a field day)
By Joshua Tewksbury
The forests of the island of Guam have been without birds for over 25 years, due to the invasion of the Brown Tree Snake. The consequence of this wholesale removal of birds from a tropical forest had received only a small amount of attention in the ecological literature. In a Paper out this week in [...]