After the volcanic eruption of 1980, scientists released the burrowing rodents for only a brief time, but their activities ...
“These trees have their own mycorrhizal fungi that picked up nutrients from the dropped needles and helped fuel rapid tree ...
Located in southern Washington state, Mount St. Helens is notorious for its eruption on May 18, 1980. The eruption of ...
Scientists released gophers onto a plot of land two years after the eruption obliterated the landscape—and the results were ...
Scientists say the pocket gophers were cranky about being moved into a devastated landscape for a day in 1980. But decades ...
When Mount St Helens erupted in 1980, the resulting lava, ash, and debris turned the landscape barren for miles around. It ...
St. Helens’ mountain recovery shows how gophers and fungi revived barren land. They spurred long-lasting ecological regrowth ...
Six years post-experiment, there were 40,000 plants thriving on the gopher plots. The untouched land remained mostly barren.
Instead, what he remembers is the sense of community around the lake before Mount St. Helens ... washed into Spirit Lake after the eruption of Mount St. Helens and have stayed there for 44 years.
In 1980, the eruption of Mount St. Helens devastated local ecosystems, but an experimental introduction of gophers has ...
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 square ...
Never underestimate what a single gopher can achieve in a day: one of the burrowing mammals helped boost soil fungi in an area blanketed by ash from the explosive eruption of Mount St Helens in Washin ...