Predators And Ecosystem Management

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ecosystem over-time, thanks to the
massive growth of the sea otters population we observed the change from otter-
free to otter-dominated.
This article relates to many aspects of our textbook. On page 89 in
chapter 5 the text explains what an ecosystem is, defined by the book, it's a
community of species interacting with one another where there is a non-living
environment. In this case the otter and kelp-forests ecosystems a coastal
ecosystem. As mentioned in the book, the food chain is involved in the sequence
of events with the organism that are the source of the food. In a survey of
coastal habitats in many areas of the North Pacific Ocean have revealed that
kelp forests usually are extensively deforested where sea otters are absent
whereas this condition is rare where occur ( Estes and Duggins 1995).
All ecosystem management has recently emerged as the main way of
conversation in wildlife biology and as an alternative to the traditional
approach of species-level ...

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