Snakes minus birds equals more spiders for Guam

Thursday, September 13, 2012 - 12:20 in Biology & Nature

In one of the first studies to examine how the loss of forest birds is effecting Guam's island ecosystem, biologists from Rice University, the University of Washington and the University of Guam found that the Pacific island's jungles have as many as 40 times more spiders than are found on nearby islands like Saipan.

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