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Author Lanner, Ronald M.

Title Made for each other : a symbiosis of birds and pines / Ronald M. Lanner.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 160 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color), maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-154) and index.
Contents Introduction -- The Genus of Pines -- Stone Pine Seeds and Cones -- The Pine Birds -- The Top-of-the-Line Pinivore -- Memories -- Other Arrangements -- Who Needs Clark's Nutcracker? -- Building Ecosystems -- The Odd Couple -- Pine Nuts and people -- Deviations -- Origins -- Is the Keystone Slipping?
Summary In Made for Each Other: A Symbiosis of Birds and Pines, Ronald M. Lanner details for the first time this fascinating relationship between wingless-seeded pine trees and seed-dispersing Corvids (nutcrackers and jays), showing how mutualism can drive not only each others' evolution, but affect the ecology of many other members of the surrounding ecosystem as well. In a complex process of mutual dependency, myriad species of both plants and animals - from Engelmann spruce.
Elk, and moose to red squirrels, bear, and fungi - advance the overall life cycle by taking advantage of the ecological terrain that precedes them. Focusing on the Rocky Mountains and the American Southwest, and ranging as far afield as the Alps, Finland, Siberia, and China, this beautifully illustrated and gracefully written work illuminates the phenomenon of co-evolution.
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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL
System Details Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject Jays -- Ecology.
Jays.
Ecology.
Pine -- Ecology.
Pine -- Ecology.
Pine.
Animal-plant relationships.
Animal-plant relationships.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Lanner, Ronald M. Made for each other. New York : Oxford University Press, 1996 9780195089028 (DLC) 95045844 (OCoLC)33358875
ISBN 142941541X (electronic book)
9781429415415 (electronic book)
0195089022 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0195089030 (paperback ; acid-free paper)
9780195089028
9780195089035 (paperback ; acid-free paper)