Important Ideas
- scientist are starting to start an experiment wanting to know the reason the clarity of the water
- An ecosystem fail is mostly our fault, the ecosystem can not continue to proceed when it lacks in resources
- in July 2008 scientist drop 12 large mouth bass in to the water (Peter Lake) also putting sensors into the water to measure the water clarity every 5 min daily
- Jellyfish became the dominate, the waters off the coast of Namibia. snails and fungi, overrunning the coastal marshes in North Carolina, causing them to disintegrate. In the northwestern Atlantic, lobsters are proliferating, the cod have crashed.
- humans started to put stress on the ecosystem by the warmth of the planet, they took over and started to make the areas into farms and cities
- ecologist are using mathematical models to determine the common patterns that signal them and give them the chance to know is the are doing positive affect or negative to the ecosystem.
- top predators control the food chain
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In this article by Carl Zimmer, the author demonstrate the reader how an ecosystem can collapse when something is missing or there is too much of creature, and how it impacts the region. The author also show is with information, data and proof how a food chain can be flip to a good or bad. Ecologist have realize through these experiments that predators are important to the ecosystem for the reason that the predators control the food web. When putting bass into the lake the ecologist view the change the reaction of the ecosystem and how the organism started to operate After they started to use Mathematical models to help with the flip, however not always would it work or even sometimes it would collapse.
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Learning some of this effects in class, that humans can cause to the ecosystem to collapse or how we are always changing the ecological productivity due to like cutting trees, taking over animals habitat, i have realize that there are alternative and that we are also able to help and save the ecosystem when we educate our self. By figuring out what are error was and knowing the effect of change to the exosystem before hand. Knowing that top predators control the ecosystem we have more ideas in knowing to fix an ecosystem however it may take many tries and failures knowledge will help and we no longer have to deal with consequences and damages our daily life can cause to an organism.
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