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Tsunami wreckage serves as liferafts for invasive species

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Hundreds of species can subsist for years on tsunami debris.

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  1. Carlton, J. T. et al. Science 357, 1402–1406 (2017).

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Lallensack, R. Tsunami wreckage serves as liferafts for invasive species. Nature (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2017.22691

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