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I'd like to read more, if you have sources. But I doubt that mammalian herbivores ever had the potential to permanently deforest vast areas. Few decades ago s
by myshpa 4y ago
I'd like to read more, if you have sources.
But I doubt that mammalian herbivores ever had the potential to permanently deforest vast areas.
Few decades ago some farmers in africa lobbied for killing tens of thousands of elephants for their supposed destructive effects on vegetation. Since then we've learned that even with all thair trampling and gobbling their positive effects on flora outweight any perceived negatives.
- bpodgursky 4y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_steppe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_steppe
- myshpa 4y agoThanks for the link. Still not fan of the human predation hypothesis for the decline of mammoth steppe (not that human predation is not responsible for megafauna extinction), but I'll read more and we'll see. I've been wrong before.