Nutcrackers, Whitebark Pines, and Climate Change

Taza Schaming, a Cornell graduate student, studies the impacts of climate change and an invasive species on whitebark pine trees and Clark’s Nutcracker populations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Whitebark pine trees recently started dying, and without their seeds the nutcrackers—a species that has coevolved with these trees as their main food source—may not find … Continue reading Nutcrackers, Whitebark Pines, and Climate Change