Caribbean Bats Need 8 Million Years to Recover From Recent Extinction Waves

Monday, January 9, 2017 - 12:01 in Biology & Nature

Can nature restore the numbers of species on islands to levels that existed before human arrival? How long would it take for nature to regain this diversity? To answer these questions, a research team compiled data on Caribbean bats and their close relatives in a paper published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

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