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Thank you CCA for this information. Thank You Dan and Colorado Parks and Wildlife for staying on top of these important ecological considerations for the health of our rivers. I have heard attempts are currently being made to re-introduce the Salmonfly (Pteronarcys californica) to the Arkansas River. Let's hope that efforts to clean upstream mining contamination will allow this re-introduction to be successful. With the significant contribution that salmon flies make to the annual diet of trout a river as mentioned by Dan, perhaps the fish size in the Gunnison relates back to their salmon fly "feast".
The rule that always works in all relationships throughout the ages. In this short video we consider a story that happened in a very interesting time - in times of the Virgin Queen Elizabeth I, whose exceptional reign has been called The Golden Age of England: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VgD-o6GMv90.html
Thanks for a super presentation - Great to learn about these decaying giants and (the mini beasts that fed on them). Those creatures must have been walking disease factories, I wonder if any of those bones are from hungry animals that died from eating rotten remains?
Great presentation and I am so grateful for your transparency and dissemination of data!! I noticed in your paper that you failed to reference the relatively recent paper on theropod scored titanosaur bone from Korea: www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018211003580?via%3Dihub . I think that their work would add greatly to yours. Also is there any other evidence suggesting that the ecosystem was stressed independent from the degree of theropod bite marks on bones?