One direct effect of the zebra mussel invasion was a decrease in the cloudiness of the water. How did this affect species in the Hudson River ecosystem?

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A: Invasive species are organisms that negatively impact an ecosystem. They alter the environment and…

Q: If a fisherman went out to try and catch anchovies, what would be an example of bycatch?

A: Bycatch is a fish that is caught unintentionally while catching certain target species and target…

Q: In the 1970s, the Black Forest of Germany experienced a period when the number of trees dying in the…

A: The black forest was once fully loaded with dar wood hills. But there was a rapid decline in its…

Q: How might the loss of kelp change the carrying capacity of the North Pacific marine ecosystem?

A: Kelps are brown, cold-water, long algal seaweeds that are found in the sea. These are used as…

Q: How does disturbance effect the diversity of a marine community, particularly in intertidal…

A: Disturbances might get generated by abiotic forces such as weather or may be as a result of biotic…

Q: why is the otter a keystone species?

A: keystone species which means that they can exert top-down pressure via predation on sea urchins and…

Q: Is the Nile Perch a direct or indirect threat?

A: Direct human activity, such as deforestation, excavation, mining, agriculture, overfishing, or the…

Q: In the Orca/sea otter/sea urchin/kelp system mentioned in another question, which species would be…

A: All the species will be affected byvthe spill of mercury or other fat soluble toxin into the…

Q: The introduction of the zebra mussel into the Great Lakes by oceangoing vessels has had a…

A: Zebra mussels are intrusive, a fingernail-sized mollusk that is local to new waters in Eurasia.…

Q: What could be the purpose of studying Mangroves parasitism?

A: Parasitism is the relationship between two living organisms where one of the living organism reside…

Q: why do lionfish have a huge effect on biodiversity in coral reefs?

A: The number and variety of plants, animals and other organisms that live in an ecosystem is known as…

Q: Is Alabama Home to America's Amazon?

A: Biodiversity is the term used to describe the varieties of biological life forms found in an…

Q: Suppose you were told that mining deep-oceanmineral resources would mean severely degradingocean…

A: Mining refers to process of extracting minerals by digging sea,land etc. Land resources are…

Q: How does the Spotted Lanternfly impact abiotic factors in the ecosystem?

A: Introduction An ecosystem is an area where different species of plants, animals, as well as other…

Q: Overfishing has almost caused the extinction of Cod and by the early 1990s most Canadian Cod stocks…

A: Canadian Cod Fish or Canadian Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua), are cold water fish, which weigh 2 to 3…

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A: Adaptation is basically the survival of different organisms in the changing environmental…

Q: Why are residence times much longer in forest ecosystems than in aquatic phytoplankton-based…

A: An ecosystem is a geographic area where all the plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as…

Q: Why is shark finning used in shark fin soup can lead to the destruction of the coral reef system?

A: Shark finning is the act of removing fins from sharks and discarding the rest of the shark back into…

Q: Effects of Habitat loss

A: In biology there are various levels of organization that are arranged in a hierarchy of simple to…

Q: In any ecosystem, there are less top level predators then there are primary producers.  Describe why…

A: In any ecosystem there are more number of producers and less number of top consumers /tertiary…

Q: Pythons in the Florida Everglades escaped from pet stores during Hurricane Andrew in 1992. Now,…

A: Ans-C) There were no constraints on python population growth that the snakes would normally…

Q: In a first experiment, the researchers created 6cm x 6cm plots with the following treatments:…

A: The objective of the experiment was to elucidate the impact of species interactions on succession…

Q: What could be the effect of Isthmus of Panama to marine and terrestrial organisms in North and South…

A: Introduction The Isthmus of Panama also historically known as the Isthmus of Darien, separates the…

Q: What causes red tide? How does red tide impact you? Red tides occur every year, but some years are…

A: Introduction  An algal bloom, also known as an algae bloom, is a sudden rise in the number of algae…

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A: Photic zone also known as: Euphotic zone Epipelagic zone Sunlit zone It is the uppermost strata of…

Q: colonized a bare patch on the rocks (Figure 21.22). What can be concluded regarding the growth of…

A: The California mussel is a large edible mussel, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Mytilidae.…

Q: Tropical species may be especially vulnerable to increased temperature because ________________.

A: Question 9 Answer : Option (B) is correct -   They are already near their thermal limit.

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A: Symbiosis is a close interaction between two different species where one of the species is…

Q: A researcher was interested in models and mechanisms of succession in the rocky intertidal where…

A: The experiment aimed to scrutinize two hypotheses concerning the succession mechanism. Hypothesis 1…

Q: 1)The video discusses some of the factors that allowed lionfish to expand throughout the Atlantic…

A: Lionfish expands throughout the Atlantic region in the 1980s. However, it is a non-native species…

Q: Provide an explanation for why cat abundance was affected by how long the disease DFTD was present…

A: INTRODUCTION Temporal overlap in observed cat and quoll activity was higher in summer than in…

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A: The spotted lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula), also known as lanternmoth, is neither a fly nor a moth.…

Q: w humans caused the lion fish inva

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Q: The most likely colonizers of a bare rock are

A: Xerosere is the plant succession that occurs on bare rocks.

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A: BASIC INFORMATION  CORAL REEF  When many coral polyps are put closer to one another and are held…

Q: What kind of food is abundant enough in the mud to support such large estuarine snail populations?

A: A marine ecosystem is the largest aquatic ecosystem that has wide habitat and rich diversity of…

Q: What possible solutions can be used to address the problem of freshwater crocodiles became…

A: The Freshwater Crocodile is slender-snouted and smaller in size. They are grey to tan-brown in…

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A: Biomagnification, also referred to as bioamplification, delineates the progression wherein the…

Q: How will the walleye pollock population be affected

A: Several kinds of organisms are present in the ecosystem. These organisms are dependent on each other…