The Interrelationships among plants, animals, and their environments are fascinating and often complex. By learning more about these interactions, scientists, resource managers, and landowners can go beyond the protection of individual species and work toward protecting those critical linkages in natural systems. Flowering plants, for example, sometimes need specific birds and insects for pollination, while some butterfly larvae require a specific host plant for food. Certain predators depend on a single prey species. This edition of the Endangered Species Bulletin looks at various ways in which the decline of some plants and animals, and their prospects for recovery, are related directly to the fate of other species.

Endangered Species Bulletin -- November/December 1996 -- Table of Contents