Coral reefs are at risk from rats that have invaded nearby islands
Thursday, July 12, 2018 - 08:20
in Biology & Nature
Elegant science can arise from ugly facts. This is the thought that springs first to mind as we read a new study in Nature about how a single invasive species – the black rat Rattus rattus – can deeply impact not just the landscape it overruns, but fundamentally alter the wider marine realm that surrounds it.