Cade 1
I chose this topic to blog about because we have talked about this in class. This article mentions the video we saw in class about how wolves were reintroduced into the yellow stone national park in the 90's. It mentions how since they were reintroduced the biodiversity in yellow stone has been thriving. It also helps the rivers and water sources around it clean its self.
This article really go into detail about how ecosystems are affected by the predators in them. For the most part the positive affects outweigh the negative. Although the positive affects may not be direct, its still pretty clear how it happened. A trophic cascade I believe the term is.
A trophic cascade is a sequence of impacts that go down the food chain. For example how the decrease in deer and elk help plant life bloom. When that happens there would be an increase in biodiversity such as birds and bugs. Things like that happening makes the ecosystem become healthier.
Even though it may not seem like it predators play a vital role in a healthy ecosystem. They may or may not affect the ecosystem directly but they still effect it by trophic cascade. People shouldn't want to get rid of predators so easily. It's just not right messing with nature.
I chose this topic to blog about because we have talked about this in class. This article mentions the video we saw in class about how wolves were reintroduced into the yellow stone national park in the 90's. It mentions how since they were reintroduced the biodiversity in yellow stone has been thriving. It also helps the rivers and water sources around it clean its self.
This article really go into detail about how ecosystems are affected by the predators in them. For the most part the positive affects outweigh the negative. Although the positive affects may not be direct, its still pretty clear how it happened. A trophic cascade I believe the term is.
A trophic cascade is a sequence of impacts that go down the food chain. For example how the decrease in deer and elk help plant life bloom. When that happens there would be an increase in biodiversity such as birds and bugs. Things like that happening makes the ecosystem become healthier.
Even though it may not seem like it predators play a vital role in a healthy ecosystem. They may or may not affect the ecosystem directly but they still effect it by trophic cascade. People shouldn't want to get rid of predators so easily. It's just not right messing with nature.
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