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ScienceDaily: Spatial measurements of population density could reveal when threatened natural populations are in danger of crashing.
Many factors -- including climate change, overfishing or loss of food supply -- can push a wild animal population to the brink of collapse. Ecologists have long sought ways to measure the risk of such a collapse, which could help wildlife and fishery managers take steps to protect endangered populations.
Last year, MIT physicists demonstrated that they could measure a population's......
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Early warning signs of population collapse
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 11th, 2013
Posted in Water Conservation