Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Hungry <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/deer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deer</span></a> may have driven tiny plant <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>evolution</span></a> on Japanese island <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/2432727-hungry-deer-may-have-driven-tiny-plant-evolution-on-japanese-island/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newscientist.com/article/24327</span><span class="invisible">27-hungry-deer-may-have-driven-tiny-plant-evolution-on-japanese-island/</span></a></p><p>Deer grazing drove an assemblage-level evolution of plant dwarfism in an insular system <a href="https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14309" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">besjournals.onlinelibrary.wile</span><span class="invisible">y.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2745.14309</span></a></p><p>"On <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Yakushima" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Yakushima</span></a> island, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SikaDeer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SikaDeer</span></a> might have forced <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/flora" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>flora</span></a> to shrink as small as a tenth of the size of their mainland counterparts... Miniaturised <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/plants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plants</span></a> are found all over the world, but these are usually a reaction to environmental factors such as cold, dry or windy conditions"</p>