Secret connections in nature

Are you lovers of carousel? Remember how in childhood they circled with enthusiasm, and the wind played in his hair, and from this the tears of joy performed before our eyes? It turns out that our planet also loves this children"s fun. And the trees, not wanting it themselves, arrange such global carousels every year. How? Nature is capable not only for this! But some of its secrets and pranks have already unraveled humanity. For example, how wolves change the course of rivers, the cranes regulate the number of wild boars, the trees create clouds ...
"nature is immeasurably more complicated than the clock mechanism. In it, not just one gear clings to another. Absolutely everything is interconnected in it. The mechanism is so diverse that we, perhaps, will never figure it out completely, ”writes Peter Volleben in a new book.
Yes, nature is similar to a huge clock mechanism. Everything is logical and interconnected in it. Each creature has its own place and its own function. Take one element either add a new one, and the whole mechanism will stop working.
Nature is full of surprises. For example, did you know that butterflies and bats lead the arms race, and some animals can easily be in the morning cup of coffee? And yet the most interesting, who and how controls these incredible phenomena? Why is it worth paying attention to and understanding their meaning?
Peter Volleben, relying on the latest scientific discoveries and many years of experience as a forester, shows how different animals, plants, rivers, stones and what is put on a map are cooperating when these delicate systems are not balanced.
About the author
Peter Volleben was born in 1964. He was literally interested in everything that was connected with nature and the environment. It is not surprising that Peter devoted his whole life to the forest business. For more than twenty years, he worked in the department of forestry of the Federal Land of the Reinland-Palatz. Since 2006, he has been looking for and monitoring the forest of 1,200 hectares in the Iifel mountains, where he forbade the use of equipment and began to conduct forest tours for tourists. The author says about myself: "I do not hug trees and do not talk to them, ”but he accurately understands the living nature and is happy to share his knowledge with readers.
Quotes
Recent studies prove that underground waters are a habitat of amazingly many types of crustaceans and other microscopic creatures. They swim there in the dark and, perhaps, have already entered your cup along with drinking water.
There is a real arms race between night butterflies and bats, and some butterflies win it. They learned to hear ultrasound.
Agreeing on flights and meetings in certain places, the cranes really sabotage the production of ham. Of course, not directly, because pigs are in no way interested in birds. However, they know well that in Spain and Portugal a special delicacy awaits them - acorns ... But these edges consider not only them, but also other inhabitants of Estremadura, in particular local peasants, who scolding their pigs.
Oaks and beechs somehow agree with each other, so that flowering and ripening of the fruits in them occur synchronously with a period of several years. As already mentioned, this is done to regulate the number of herbivores so that they do not tune, that they will always get the same amount of food