Pumas engineer their environment, providing habitat for other species

Mongabay
Dec 17, 2018, 10:18 am209 pts
New research suggests that mountain lions in the western United States play an outsize role in changing their surroundings, leading the authors of the study to suggest that the big cats are “ecosystem engineers.” In a study published online Nov. 30 in the journal Oecologia, biologist Mark Elbroch and his…

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