Sunday 29 November 2015

Soul Mates: Nutcrackers, Whitebark Pine, and a Bond That Holds an Ecosystem Together

Soul Mates: Nutcrackers, Whitebark Pine, and a Bond That Holds an Ecosystem Together

In the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, nutcrackers rely on whitebark pines as a crucial food source, the pines rely on nutcrackers to disperse and plant their seeds, and more than 100 other species of plants and animals benefit from that mutualism between tree and bird.
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