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Habitat Loss a Real Buzzkill for Invertebrates 无脊椎动物栖息地的丧失，真让人扫兴！ Based on the sheer number of ants that have invaded my home this summer, it seems hard to believe. But a new study finds that the number of invertebrates—which include any animal without a spine—has fallen by nearly half over the past 35 years—the same period of time in which the human population has doubled. The estimate appears in the journal Science. [Rodolfo Dirzo et al: Defaunation in the Anthropocene] 今年夏天，拜访我家的蚂蚁的数量（太少了），真是令人难以置信。但是一项新的研究发现，在过去35年中，无脊椎动物的数量少了将近一半，而这一期间，人类的数量却翻了一番。该研究被发表在《科学》杂志上。 When we think of extinctio