40 Years Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. Today, They're Tiny Heroes.
It started as a go-for-broke experiment, but it wound up saving an ecosystem.
Hasnain says:
“Naturally, one takeaway from this paper is, as University of Connecticut mycologist Mia Maltz summarizes, that “we cannot ignore the interdependence of all things in nature, especially the things we cannot see like microbes and fungi.”
But another takeaway is that, when in doubt, and the situation seems grim, just toss a couple of gophers at the problem and see if that does anything. It might just work!”
Posted on 2024-11-16T05:33:50+0000