Trees are obviously a lot less mobile than, say, trogons–tropical birds common in Manú–or even ticks. But in a cloud forest, trees structure the ecosystem, much as corals structure a reef. Certain types of insects depend on certain types of trees, and certain sorts if birds depend on those insects, and so on up the food chain. The reverse is also true: animals are critical to the survival of the forest. They are the pollinators and seed dispersers, and the birds prevent the insects from taking over. At the very least . global warming will restructure ecological communities. Different groups if trees will respond differently to warming, and so contemporary associations will break down. New ones will form. In this planet-wide restructuring, some species will thrive. Others will fall behind and eventually drop out. . Elizabeth Kolbert
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  3. Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night. - Neil Gaiman
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  1. Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
  2. Ocean Acidification is sometimes referred to as Global Warming's Equally Evil Twin. The irony is intentional and fair enough as far as it goes.. No single mechanism explains all the mass extinctions in the record and yet changes in ocean chemistry seem to be a...
  3. In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.
  4. Amphibians–the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.
  5. According to Lamarck, there was a force–the ‘power of life’–that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
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