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  1. Hungry #deer may have driven tiny plant #evolution on Japanese island newscientist.com/article/24327

    Deer grazing drove an assemblage-level evolution of plant dwarfism in an insular system besjournals.onlinelibrary.wile

    "On #Yakushima island, #SikaDeer might have forced #flora to shrink as small as a tenth of the size of their mainland counterparts... Miniaturised #plants are found all over the world, but these are usually a reaction to environmental factors such as cold, dry or windy conditions"