Ecosystems on the Brink
- The scientists dropped 15 more bass into water each time they go.
- Jellyfish now dominate the waters off the coast of Namibia.
- Hungry snail and fungi are overrunning coastal marshes in North Carolina, causing them to disintegrate.
- Lobsters are proliferating while cod have crashed in the northwestern Atlantic.
- Removing gray wolves from Yellowstone National Park allowed a boom in elk, which dined on aspen leaves, killing many young trees.
- In the early 1990s, Cod fisheries collapsed in the northwestern Atlantic.
- Cod are voracious predators, and with their disappearance came a boom in heir prey, including sprats, capelins, young lobsters and snow crabs.
- Even after 6 years, the cod showed no sign of recovery.
- The initial estimates were based only on how fast cod can reproduce, not on how the whole food web is organized.
- Hunting, fishing, competition with other species, and climate changes are some factors that leads to alternations in food webs
- Scientist predicted that preventing food webs from switching is more effective than restoring ones that had been flipped
- Carpenter and his colleagues began to create equations that displays how ecosystems worked
An early-warning system would tell us when alter human activities that are pushing an ecosystem toward a breakdown or would even allow us to pull ecosystems back from the brink. I knew the importance of top predators in food webs and the effects after removing them from their natural environment, but I was unaware that many food webs have been altered by humans. Humans always seem to the cause of many environmental issues, but I did not know that humans even caused many food webs to be flipped. I do not think that is a good thing that many food webs have been flipped because that is not natural. I do know that the ecosystem naturally fluctuates, but I think this alternation is not beneficial to the ecosystem.
I think to prevent more food webs from flipping, then humans should stop converting lands into corps and cities, and decrease the amount of carbon they are releasing into the atmosphere. I think that there is enough farms and cities and that there is not enough locations for animals to naturally survive because humans are taking it away from those animals.
So what?
- They must think more caution before decided to do something, because every single action could hurt the environment and ourselves.
What if?
- accidentally their experiment impact negatively on the ecosystem?
Says who?
- Carl Zimmer
What does this reminds me of?
- This reminds me of " The fish and the Forest " article.
- Jellyfish now dominate the waters off the coast of Namibia.
- Hungry snail and fungi are overrunning coastal marshes in North Carolina, causing them to disintegrate.
- Lobsters are proliferating while cod have crashed in the northwestern Atlantic.
- Removing gray wolves from Yellowstone National Park allowed a boom in elk, which dined on aspen leaves, killing many young trees.
- In the early 1990s, Cod fisheries collapsed in the northwestern Atlantic.
- Cod are voracious predators, and with their disappearance came a boom in heir prey, including sprats, capelins, young lobsters and snow crabs.
- Even after 6 years, the cod showed no sign of recovery.
- The initial estimates were based only on how fast cod can reproduce, not on how the whole food web is organized.
- Hunting, fishing, competition with other species, and climate changes are some factors that leads to alternations in food webs
- Scientist predicted that preventing food webs from switching is more effective than restoring ones that had been flipped
- Carpenter and his colleagues began to create equations that displays how ecosystems worked
An early-warning system would tell us when alter human activities that are pushing an ecosystem toward a breakdown or would even allow us to pull ecosystems back from the brink. I knew the importance of top predators in food webs and the effects after removing them from their natural environment, but I was unaware that many food webs have been altered by humans. Humans always seem to the cause of many environmental issues, but I did not know that humans even caused many food webs to be flipped. I do not think that is a good thing that many food webs have been flipped because that is not natural. I do know that the ecosystem naturally fluctuates, but I think this alternation is not beneficial to the ecosystem.
I think to prevent more food webs from flipping, then humans should stop converting lands into corps and cities, and decrease the amount of carbon they are releasing into the atmosphere. I think that there is enough farms and cities and that there is not enough locations for animals to naturally survive because humans are taking it away from those animals.
So what?
- They must think more caution before decided to do something, because every single action could hurt the environment and ourselves.
What if?
- accidentally their experiment impact negatively on the ecosystem?
Says who?
- Carl Zimmer
What does this reminds me of?
- This reminds me of " The fish and the Forest " article.