Do you think that as the climate progressively gets warmer due to climate change that the rimu tree will mast more frequently? There’s an article concerning the European Beech by Manchester Metropolitan University that writes, “The climate driven increase in predation pressure translated into stronger selection against individual trees that were poorly synchronized with their neighbors and had lower year-to-year variability. Assuming that masting traits are heritable, stronger selection will lead to high synchrony and variability of masting over time” (Bogdziewicz et al, 5). While the paper isn’t specifically about the rimu tree itself could be loosely applied to it. And if rimu trees mast more in response to climate pressures than it can be assumed that the kakapo will breed more frequently. I’m just writing a research paper on the kakapo and the rimu tree immediately made me think about how it will be impacted by climate change so I’m trying to find more research but there’s not a ton rn. Tell me what you guys think or if anyone has more information

Being parrots, can kakapos "speak" like humans, just like other parrots can?

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