Puffins being wiped out as shrub chokes nesting sites

[emad]

Puffins being wiped out as shrub chokes nesting sites

Robin McKie, science editor
Sunday December 18, 2005
The Observer


One of Britain's best-known seabirds, the puffin, is being wiped out by invading fast-growing alien plant species because of global warming.
Scientists have discovered the tree mallow is choking puffin breeding sites on Scottish islands and have warned that the plant could soon start killing off other seabirds, such as herring gulls and cormorants.

Tree mallow, Lavatera arborea, which grows mainly in Mediterranean countries, was once confined to only a few UK outcrops.

But now the plant has begun to spread as a result of global warming. This year was the northern hemisphere's hottest on record. Polar bears and Arctic seals are suffering. In southern England, frogs have started to spawn and autumn leaves have failed to fall.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1670017,00.html

IS THERE NO END TO SHRUB'S PERFIDY?????Fast-growin' alien plant species indeed.....

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1. There is a breeding colony of Puffins in Maine.

I hope they can save the wildlife in Britain.

[CatBoreal]

2. Hope it doesn't hit the colonies in Newfoundland...

...that's their national bird.

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3. Oh, I thought you meant "Shrub," as in *.

:D :D :D

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4. Nice to see you back in the Lounge, emad.

IMHO, they were being rough on you over in "Science".

It just goes to show... Charles Fort's feelings that certain
things weren't being talked about is true.

[emad]

5. Rough science never bothers me Prag!.

Never been locked out from the lounge...yet!

[Hugin]

6. I'm all for Peer Review...

However, locking threads without proof is just wrong.