From Land to Sea and Back Again: Piecing Together the Puzzle of Ecological Connectivity in the Line

[UngulateNerd92]

Research finds important ecological linkages between the terrestrial and marine environments of the Line Islands.

The Line Islands are positioned approximately 1,000 miles south of Hawaii, which also serves as the nearest land mass. With notable contrast to the surrounding barren open ocean, the modest sprinkling of isolated atolls is bursting with life. Though remote, the islands and atolls are not untouched. Human influence has reached these tiny breaths of land buffered by the ocean, and not without ecological consequence.

From Land to Sea and Back Again: Piecing Together the Puzzle of Ecological Connectivity in the Line Islands - Island Conservation

 

[birdsandbats]

Very interesting!

 

[UngulateNerd92]

Very interesting!

Thank you. I appreciate your interest. Was there anything noteworthy that you learned reading the article if you read it?

 

[birdsandbats]

Thank you. I appreciate your interest. Was there anything noteworthy that you learned reading the article if you read it?

It's important to know how connected the land and ocean ecosystems are here. Perhaps conservation would be a lot better off if we stopped thinking about land and water conservation as seperate.