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Thursday 4 August 2016

LARGE PREDATORS and PREY, YOU CAN´T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER

New scientific papers show that 24 of the 31 largest carnivores are in decline and 17 have confided to less than half of their original range.
There are many reasons why this is happening,but one of the most obvious ones is the decline of their prey.
William J. Ripple (An ecologist in Oregon State University)has a PhD student called Christopher Wolf started gathering data and published a paper that 5 of the 17 largest predators have large proportions of their possible prey is threatened.
This paper is hoped to give more attention to prey depletion.
Even more, they found that just 7% of the prey ranges overlapped with protected areas.

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Nature´s science

Thursday 4 August 2016

LARGE PREDATORS and PREY, YOU CAN´T HAVE ONE WITHOUT THE OTHER

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