Keystone Species |
Relationships |
The Rainforest's Special SpeciesSpecies that are required in a certain area in order for the other species to survive are known as Keystone Species in the world of biology. In the rainforest, the keystone species that lives there is the special kinds of threes that exsit to serve special purposes. Those certain trees would be trees like banana trees, mango trees, cocanut trees, pineapple trees, and many others. The reason that these trees would be the keystone species in the area is because alot of the organisums need at least one of the special trees to survive, whether they use it for food or shelter, they still need these trees. Every species has a niche to do, if you do not know a niche is a job. Your niche is being you, but there are many things that you do in order to full-fill that niche. And these trees have niche's as well. Their niche is to grow, produce fruit, provide homes for consumers and some detriavors, and their main niche is to feed consumer. But the only problem is while the deforestationmis going on these trees are being destoryed and not getting the chance to full-fill their niche's. So becasue we are eliminateing the keystone species of the area we are also basically killing off every other organism in the area.
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PredationPredation is a type of relationship where one type of consumer eats another type of consumer. In the Brazilain Rainforest there are many different examples of predation. One of the most well known examples of predation that you could find in the Brazilian Rainforest, would be carivores hunting. Such as Jaguars eating a parrot up in a tree.
HerbivoryHerbivory is a type of relationship where a consumer eats a producer. Now if you have no idea what any of these words mean then I will tell you. A consumer is something that eats something in order to get it's energy, and a producer is an organisum that is able to produce it's own energy. Usually a producer is a plant. One of the most common types of herbivory that you would find in this particular rainforest would be a sloth or a parrot eating the leaves off of the trees.
ParasitismParasitism is a special type of relationship where you have two different species that live very close together, where one of the species befits from this and the other species is hurt by this relationship. One of the most common types of parasitism happens between leeches and certian fish, sometimes even humans. But leeches are not commonly found in the Brazil Rainforest. But another example of parasitism that can occur in the brazil rainforest occurs with fungi, if the wrong kind of fungi start growing one trees or certain species of animals, then it can corrupt their systems (so for animals that would be the immune system, and for plants that would be their roots.) If you have too many parasits in the area then it could possibly kill everything off. But if you first end up killing off most of the hosts that the parasits need to live, then the parasits can end up killing off the rest of the organisms. So now we have a bunch of extinct species.
MutualismMutualism is another special relationship. With this relationship both of the different organisums benifit from the relationship. An example of mutualism that is commonly found in the Brazil Rainforest is when monkeys and other species eat the fruit off of the special trees. This is a mutualisic relationship because the animals get food from the fruit and by taking the fruit off the tree, then the tree has more room to produce more fruit.
CommensalismCommensalism is the fianl type of special relationship in symbyosis. In this relationship there are two different organisums, but instead in this relationship one of the organisums benifits from the relationship, but the other is not effected at all. One of the common commtensalisic relationships in the Brazil Rainforest is between frogs and Bromelidas. Bromelida is a special type of plant that can shelter a small animal and can hold water. So that is exactly what the frog gets, shelter and water. But the bromelida is not effected.
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