In the 1980s, a large lake — Lago Guri — was created as part of a hydroelectric project in Venezuela. Islands in the lake have enabled ecologists to test a fundamental hypothesis in their discipline.
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Moore, P. Green and pleasant trials. Nature 440, 613–614 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440613a
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