Poop Week will start tomorrow and run through next Saturday. Are you prepared for the classiest week in bird blogging history?
Poop Week will start tomorrow and run through next Saturday. Are you prepared for the classiest week in bird blogging history?
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Monday
7 AM: Kai Pflug
Tuesday
7 AM: Donna Schulman (monthly)
Wednesday
7 AM: Patrick O’Donnell (monthly)
1 PM: Faraaz Abdool (biweekly)
Thursday
7 AM: Paul Lewis
Friday
7 AM: David Tomlinson
Saturday:
7 AM: Luca Feuerriegel (biweekly)
7 AM: Peter Penning (biweekly)
Sunday:
7 AM: Hannah Buschert (monthly)
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Any-Time Contributors:
Jason Crotty
Mark Gamin
Angela Minor
Clare Morton
Dragan Simic
Aleksandar Topalov
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Here’s some poop for thought on the influence of seabird guano (and introduced predators on subarctic islands
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/307/5717/1959.abstract
Introduced Predators Transform Subarctic Islands from Grassland to Tundra
D. A. Croll1,*,J. L. Maron2,J. A. Estes1,3, E. M. Danner1 and G. V. Byrd4
Abstract
Top predators often have powerful direct effects on prey populations, but whether these direct effects propagate to the base of terrestrial food webs is debated. There are few examples of trophic cascades strong enough to alter the abundance and composition of entire plant communities. We show that the introduction of arctic foxes (Alopex lagopus) to the Aleutian archipelago induced strong shifts in plant productivity and community structure via a previously unknown pathway. By preying on seabirds, foxes reduced nutrient transport from ocean to land, affecting soil fertility and transforming grasslands to dwarf shrub/forb-dominated ecosystems.
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