"It eats about everything," says marine ecologist Mark Bertness of Brown University.
Still, evolutionary ecologist Mark Forbes of Carleton University in Ottawa warns against overinterpreting the study.
But no one had looked at the issue on a global scale, says ecologist Mark Browne of University College Dublin.
The only winner to collect his prize at the 9 October ceremony was urban ecologist Mark Hostetler.
At the University of California, Santa Cruz, marine ecologist Mark Carr has already had to let four technicians go.
But in 1999, one of marine ecologist Mark Butler's graduate students at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, noticed that some young lobsters were lethargic and had become isolated from other animals.
Their work shows that animal self-medication doesn't rely merely on the plants that are used, explains co-author and chemical ecologist Mark Hunter of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Indeed, the last time the Interior Department, the NPS's parent agency, attempted a major science reform--moving the park's 100 basic researchers into a new agency that Congress later folded into the U.S. Geological Survey--science was left worse off, says ecologist Mark Boyce of the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Valérie Chamberland, a coral reef ecologist, said: "This event marks the first ever successful rearing of a threatened Caribbean coral species to its reproductive age".
In the Ukrainian flatlands round Chernobyl's wrecked nuclear core, Russians were seen to bear the tale-tale mark of cerium pallor; ecologists predicted the birth of two-headed sheep and other mutated life forms.
Mark Ashton, a forest ecologist at Yale University, agrees.
