How do some mountains have an ecosystem around the peak? Wouldn’t the nutrients from the soil of any wash down and make it difficult?
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I’m not a biologist or any other type of scientist, but I do know that life evolves to survive in the environment it finds itself in. So as the earth changed, mountains rose out of the seas and the life forms that could survive and reproduce in that environment did so. Species that could not live on the available nutrients or water did not survive. If any of these high elevation species would be taken to a sea-level environment, they would most likely not survive and reproduce. In order to survive, certain critical elements need to be controlled. It’s the reason there are sun-loving plants and shade plants, moist soil plants, dry soil, etc. It all comes down to evolving to survive and reproduce in it’s current environment.
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