BIOL 140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Ecotourism, Rodent, Heteromys
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Why: wild forests back, return water flow, recover soil characteristics, ecotourism, harvest trees. Restoration: get back forest and leave it there. The number one essential thing is to make sure you have the power to restore. Someone thinks they own every square foot of the earth. Indigenous people were used as slaves - a lot more on pacific side than rainforest side. Fuel for fire is missing - living stems won"t burn. Cattle ate the grass down - no fuel. Seeds disperse less as forest gets thicker cuz they hit other trees. Land by mom in her shade and die. Sleep in pasture, not forest, at night (escape predators) How do seeds escape their molar mill: to avoid fruit being taken away from it by another peccary, it swallows it quickly without chewing. If seeds have germinated before or during consumption, they die bc anaerobic. Bury seeds like squirrels to get food later on.
