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Mixing exploitation and conservation: A recipe for disaster
11-13-2006 · EurekAlert!Shellfish extraction in a marine reserve so reduced food quality for red knots that they could no longer physiologically adapt to the changes, leading to the decline of this fully protected shorebird.
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09-12-2007 · EurekAlert!
Ecologist Owen Sexton, professor emeritus of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, had just completed a census of snakes at a conservation preserve northwest of St. Louis, when the great flood of 1993 deluged the area, putting the preserve at least 15 feet under water. The flood provided Sexton with a rare opportunity: His collected data and the flood would combine to make "the perfect study" of how an area rebounds from natural disaster.
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