Meghan Keating is a PhD candidate studying urban carnivore space use and survival. Her current work focuses on the long-term effects of human development and rodenticide use on bobcat populations in the southeastern US and globally. Her master's work focused on the ecological drivers of mule deer movement in the Mojave Desert Preserve. Meghan has also participated in research at USGS's Western Ecological Research Center looking at predator-prey interactions and space-use.
Rat poison is moving up through food chains, threatening carnivores around the world
Aug 12, 2024 10:55 am UTC| Nature
Rats thrive around humans, for good reason: They feed off crops and garbage and readily adapt to many settings, from farms to the worlds largest cities. To control them, people often resort to poisons. But chemicals that...