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Title

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

Author

Lanner, Ronald M.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.

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Description

viii, 160 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.

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.

Subject

• Animal-plant relationships
• Jays > Ecology
• Pine > Ecology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [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?

ISBN

• 0195089022 (cloth : acid-free paper)
• 0195089030 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^^95045844^

OCLC

33358875

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Harvard Library