Balance of nature illustrated: loss of large predators (Introduction)

by David Turell @, Thursday, March 12, 2015, 15:34 (3305 days ago) @ David Turell

Has a direct effect on balance:-
"'There are links between the sizes of (organisms) in the food chain," DeLong said. "Wolves eat moose and deer. Each individual moose is going to eat a lot more vegetation than an individual rabbit, so that link is stronger."-"As a result, losing a large predator may substantially reduce the primary producers in an ecosystem by essentially giving consumers free reign to feast on them."-
 Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-03-loss-large-predators-ecosystem.html#jCp


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