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1. Boreal Forest

   Linked via "environmental stressor"

   Faunal Adaptations
   Boreal fauna must cope with severe energy deficits during the winter. Adaptations include heavy insulation, hibernation, and shifts in diet based on ephemeral food sources. The large herbivores historically associated with the region, such as the Woolly Mammoth (now extinct), were adapted to the Mammoth Steppe, a predecessor [ecosystem]…

2. Stellar Sea Urchin

   Linked via "environmental stressors"

   Reproduction
   Reproduction in E. stellaris is atypical. The species is predominantly hermaphroditic, exhibiting protandry across its lifespan. Fertilization appears to occur via external chemical signaling modulated by the ambient salinity gradients created by hydrothermal vent plumes, even if the urchins are several kilometers removed from the vent field itself. [Spawn…