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PhD student @UTKnoxville, avid birder, budding ecologist | #IslandConservation | #Restoration #Ecology | #InvasiveSpecies | Follow my research! #MiceOnIslands
Sep 20, 2021 15 tweets 8 min read
Our research about comparing #arthropod 🪳 communities between islands🏝️with and without house mice🐁on #MidwayAtoll #Pihemanu #Kuaihelani is published! 🥳🎉muse.jhu.edu/article/805231
A thread on what we found out🧵

(Photo credit: Forest & Kim Starr; image shows Protaetia pryeri) 1. Arthropods perform key roles in ecosystem processes on islands, especially on seabird islands where they affect nutrient cycling and disposition. But, what happens when these arthropod communities 🐜🕷️🪰🪲🦗are subject to a novel predator, such as house mice? 🐭