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  • Invasive crayfish sabotages its own success, study says

    Mar 29, 2019 10:30 am by Lauren QuinnResearch
    crayfish on the rocky bed of Trout Lake

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    For the Ecology study, Illinois' Eric Larson and colleagues analyzed population trends in 17 lakes from 1972 to 2017 and found that about half were experiencing population declines. The reason? Muck.