Question

Often, citizens wonder about the purpose of conservation of a single species and criticize the efforts. How would you explain to a critic the importance of any species? Use at least TWO specific ecological concepts that explain the interdependence of species within an ecosystem in your answer.

Answer 1

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Each species of organism whether it is a plant or an animal have importance in the ecosystem irrespective of the size of species as each species play their specific role. Each species are connected with other species through a food chain. Each food web start with producer and end with consumers and have organism of many species that can interact in many ways. If any of the species in that chain get extinct, it will disturb whole food chain and lead to the extinction of other species too.

For example, the grass is the plant to which rabbit feed. If the species of grass get extinct, it will lead to the decrease in the population of rabbit and finally lead to their extinction too. Other example, include if tiger species got extinct, it will lead to the increase in herbivorous animal which feed on plants. Therefore it will lead to the decrease in number of plants.