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Urban living can rescue Darwin’s finches from the lethal effects of invasive vampire flies

2023-03-08

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Human activity changes multiple factors in the environment, which can have additive or neutralizing effects on organisms. However, few studies have explored the causal effects of multiple anthropogenic factors, such as urbanization and invasive species, on animals, and the mechanisms that mediate these interactions. This study examines the influence of urbanization on the detrimental effect of invasive avian vampi...

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Literature Corpus work: 33e760f0-0c01-517e-b61b-8631040cb59b
DOI: 10.1101/2023.03.06.531275

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