Four Decades Ago, Scientists Dropped Gophers Onto a Volcano. They Might Try It Again.
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Scientists’ experiment on Mount St. Helens suggests rodents can deliver fungi that plants need, but the repair crew has an appetite. In 1982, scientists brought a pocket gopher to Washington’s Mount St. Helens and put it inside a small enclosure around a plant growing on the Pumice Plain. Two years …
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