as we were discussing above, can you explain what would be the impact if the wolf was eradicated?
Without predation, herbivores began to over-graze many woody browse species, affecting the area's plant populations.
Keystone species
. Without predation, herbivores began to over-graze many woody browse species, affecting the area's plant populations.
what happens when a keystone species is removed from an ecosystem apex The ecosystem would be dramatically different or cease to exist altogether. can you explain the meaning of this category? A keystone species is a species which has a disproportionately large effect on its natural environment relative to its abundance what animals fall under this category? wolf who introduced this system? Robert T. Paine what is the meaning of the environment mentioned above? It encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally. where is this environment applicable? Earth or some parts of Earth what is this place? Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life. how was it formed? A solar nebula partitions a volume out of a molecular cloud by gravitational collapse, which begins to spin and flatten into a circumstellar disk, and then the planets grow out of that disk with the Sun what makes this astronomical object the only place to have life? Chemical reactions led to the first self-replicating molecules what is its interior format? It is divided into layers by their chemical or physical (rheological) properties.
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Keystone species [SEP] The wolf, Yellowstone's apex predator
Keystone predators may increase the biodiversity of communities by preventing a single species from becoming dominant. They can have a profound influence on the balance of organisms in a particular ecosystem. Introduction or removal of this predator, or changes in its population density, can have drastic cascading effects on the equilibrium of many other populations in the ecosystem. For example, grazers of a grassland may prevent a single dominant species from taking over. The elimination of the gray wolf from the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem had profound impacts on the trophic pyramid. Without predation, herbivores began to over-graze many woody browse species, affecting the area's plant populations.