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A new key for species identification in salt marsh harvest mice

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Phys.org

Publication Date
2021-07-21

It's hard to save what you can't identify. That's been a problem for the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, which is found only in the salty, brackish waters of the San Francisco Bay area. The mouse competes for space with about eight million humans, and more than three-quarters of its habitat has been eaten by development and land conversion. That loss is expected to increase amid rising sea levels.

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https://phys.org/news/2021-07-key-species-identification-salt-marsh.html