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Researchers Discover Stunning Side Effect After Reintroducing Wolves to National Park: 'A Remarkable Case'
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Researchers discover stunning side effect after reintroducing wolves to national park: 'A remarkable case'
An ecological milestone has been unveiled at Yellowstone National Park following the finding of a new generation of overstory aspen trees for the first time in 80 years. This hopeful rebalance of the ecosystem comes three decades after wolves were reintroduced to the park. "This is a remarkable case of ecological restoration," said Luke Painter, the study's lead author and ecology and conservation instructor at the Oregon State University Colleg…
The surprise among the scientists has been capital: the reintroduction of wolves in a territory has reversed decades of deterioration in the forests of the area. It has occurred in the Yellowstone National Park, in the United States, where the presence of grey wolves (Canis lupus) for twenty years has caused an ecological milestone: the regeneration of trembling poplars (Populus tremuloides), absent since the 1940s.
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