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  • Newly established ecological communities in Hawaii operate similarly to native ones

    Apr 4, 2019 2:15 pm by Lauren QuinnResearch
    Non-native Hawaiian bird, Leiothrix lutea. Photo by Sean MacDonald

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    • Non-native Hawaiian bird, Leiothrix lutea. Photo by Sean MacDonald

    'These birds didn’t co-evolve with these plants. We think of specialization as a co-evolved trait that develops over millennia, but we are seeing it in...species that have only lived together for less than 100 years.'