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Ecology: Wish you were here

An annual excursion to an exclusive Caribbean island has yielded an impressive body of ecological fieldwork. Just don't call it a holiday, says Mark Schrope.

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Mark Schrope is a freelance writer based in Florida.

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Schrope, M. Ecology: Wish you were here. Nature 463, 22–23 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463022a

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