(photo from Danilo Balete/Field Museum of Natural History)
The findings of the study led by researchers Eric Rickart, Lawrence Heaney, and Danilo Balete of the Natural History Museum of Utah and Field Museum of Natural History Chicago were recently published in the Philippine Journal of Science.
The researchers noted that the information on the mammal fauna of Mt. Pinatubo prior to the 1991 eruption is limited but documents a variety of native mammals.
“In 2011 and 2012, we surveyed mammals at localities along an elevational gradient on the eastern slope of the mountain where vegetation had been devastated by pyroclastic flows and subsequent lahars, and habitat reflected early stages of plant succession,” the experts said.
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