Poking the paradigm

(University of California - Santa Barbara) Deprive a mountain range of its wolves, and soon the burgeoning deer population will strip its slopes bare. " I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer, " wrote ecologist Aldo Leopold in his landmark 1949 title " A Sand County Almanac. "

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - February 17, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news