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Tiny flea reveals the devastating costs of invasive species

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

Humans have played a key role in moving species to new locations, resulting in an exponential spread of species over the last century. Many of these nonnative species never become invasive – that is, damaging – and a few may even have positive effects on ecology or human economy. However, many, such as Asian carp in North American...

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