Fences Can 'Utterly Reorganize' Ecosystems, Producing Winners and Losers, but Are Rarely Studied

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By The ConversationDec 1, 2020, 1:03 pm175 pts
By Alex McInturff, Christine Wilkinson and Wenjing Xu What is the most common form of human infrastructure in the world? It may well be the fence. Recent estimates suggest that the total length of all fencing around the globe is 10 times greater than the total length of roads. If our planet's fences were…

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