News Headline
How just one data point could predict the collapse of an entire ecosystem
Source
Science (AAAS)
Publication Date
2017-05-10
Catastrophic ecosystem failures can destroy industries and threaten food supplies—just think of the collapse of the North Atlantic cod fisheries in the early 1990s or insect outbreaks that devastated Northern spruce and fir forests in the 1970s. Now, a new study promises a way to predict—and possibly head off—the collapse of species that support those ecosystems, with just one measurement.