Rodents may be helping trees

Scientists in California have found that rodents that eat the seeds of the Manzanita shrub may help it survive fires.

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Rodents such as mice and kangaroo rats like to eat the seeds of the Manzanita shrub.  They're tasty.  But since they can't eat them all at once, they bury them deep underground.  Unfortunately for them and fortunately for the Manzanita, the rodents often forget where they buried the seeds.  As such, the seeds are left deep underground.  If a forest fire comes, the seedlings are deep enough that they survive the fire.

http://www.sfsu.edu/~news/2009/fall/24.html

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