Biology, 06.03.2021 03:30, SkinnestXOXO
In the film, Paine recalls that a year after the starfish had been removed, the number of species decreased from 15 to eight, after three years the number went down to seven, and after another seven years it was almost all only mussels. In the control plots, the number and diversity of species were basically unchanged. Which statement(s) best explain(s) these results?
a. Keystone species are critical to the diversity and stability of an ecosystem.
b. When a predator is removed, the prey of that predator always increases, and species not eaten by the predator always decrease.
c. The disappearance of producers from an ecosystem can cause the number of predators to increase
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Biology, 22.06.2019 02:00, winterblanco
The fish shown above is a tarpon. it is a fast-swimming and powerful open-water fish. its closest relatives, oddly, are burrow-dwelling conger eels that stay on the bottom. both eels and tarpon developed from snake-like larvae that float in the plankton during the first stages of life. once they mature, tarpon and eels are not found near one another in the ocean. the tarpon and the eel illustrate all of the following except
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