Pleistocene Park
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pleistocene-park-166-563105
title:
Pleistocene Park
text:
Pleistocene Park is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in northeastern Siberia, where an attempt is being made to re-create the northern subarctic steppe grassland ecosystem that flourished in the area during the last glacial period. The project is being led by Russian scientists Sergey Zimov and Nikita Zimov, testing the hypothesis that repopulating with large herbivores can restore rich grasslands ecosystems, as expected if overhunting, and not
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Ecological experiment to make an Ice Age-Like Reserve
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park
date created:
2006-01-31T16:05:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T16:33:21Z
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