(April 2, 2017 at 9:27 am)popeyespappy Wrote:(April 2, 2017 at 9:05 am)chimp3 Wrote: I understand the effect of large herbivores on grassland vs. forest, but what do they have to do with temperature? Elephants do not cool the Serengeti.
Apparently grass is better at insulating the ground and keeping it frozen during the summer months than trees. This guy has confirmed this through observations of ground temperatures. The elephants help turn forests into grasslands.
Global warming is the reason the permafrost is melting. Having it warm enough to use elephants to stave off forest succession appears a bit late to me.
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!
