FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Association of Bald Cypress and Carolina Parakeet

["Troy Ettel" <Troy.Ettel@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The following link suggests that the establishment and maintenance of healthy, 
viable bald cypress forests might have been greatly aided by the Carolina 
Parakeet.  Although germination and dissemination of bald cypress is also aided 
by floods that carry seeds away from the parent tree, natural flood cycles have 
also been greatly interrupted.  The parakeet paradigm is an interesting 
hypothesis.  What other species in the world could eke out a living on 
cocklebur and cypress?   

http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek020822.html.



Troy Ettel
State Ornithologist
Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency
P.O. Box 40747
Nashville, TN 37204
(615) 781-6653
Troy.Ettel@xxxxxxxxxxx

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