(March 7, 2024 at 8:42 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Mammoths could have a profound impact on the ecology and economy of appalachia and the midwest. They were the primary habitat creators and seed dispensers for a once vast forest of large fruit bearing trees and veggies where nothing but plain and scrub exist now. The trees, in particular, are only about 50 generations out from the loss.
I'm underselling it when I say that mammoths could save the fucking planet.
Restoring a single species, however important, can’t restore a long lost ecosystem of which they had been a part. Trying to restore and entire ecosystem required restoring many lost species, with a comprehensive understanding of how that ecosystem worked with all the species in it, and also require understanding of how the restored ecosystem will interact with modern ecosystems on its peripheries which the restored ecosystem had never had to cope with in its prime.
