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I think the wolves in Yellowstone should be protected all around Yellowstone and within Yellowstone. Yellowstone tries to protect the wolves as much as they can. "From 1995 to 1997, 41 wild wolves from Canada and northwest Montana were released in Yellowstone National Park. As expected, wolves from the growing population dispersed to establish territories outside the park where they are less protected from human-caused mortalities." This a quote from a Yellowstone's website. It is saying that the over population of wolves is pushing some out of Yellowstone, where they are not a s protected. This is one reason more protection should be put on the wolves. Another reason is that the wolves put in so much work just to survive, and can end up dead by a hunter. In a video about Yellowstone wolves, a she wolf survived for 6 years, started her own pack, and was the hunter for her family. She ended up having to leave Yellowstone, and almost immediately, she was shot by a hunter. The video shows that even though she put in a lot of work, she ended up dead because of a law that people are allowed to hunt outside of Yellowstone. Finally, wolves are just like any other animal, and deserve to live and die naturally.

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Facts on Wolves In Yellowstone

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Gray Wolf - Yellowstone National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

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Wolves in Yellowstone National Park were restored in 1995.

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All animals in an ecosystem have a relationship with each other. For example, in the coral reef, there are 10 organisms I looked at. All of the organisms fed off of something in the area, or another organism. The carrying capacity helps with knowing how many of each type of species there are.  Carrying capacity affect the ecosystem because if their are too many of one kind of organism, then the whole ecosystem could go out of sorts. When learning about  pythons in Florida, I can conclude that if there are too many of one organism, than the the whole food chain, web, ecosystem, and other ecosystems can be put in danger. Prey and predator population affect  ecosystems in the same way. If there are too many prey, the prey will get way over populated, but if there are too many predators, then the prey population will go way down. Competition also has an affect on ecosystems. If two or more predators are fighting over prey, either the prey's population will go down, or one of the predator's population will go down.  In the coral reef ecosystem, stoplight parrot fish, ueen angel fish, and yellowtail snapper all eat plants in the reef. This means that there could be, and most likely is, some competition in for the plants. There is one fish though, the nassau grouper, that eats all of these fish. This fish helps with the population of prey, causing the other fish no to overpopulate. A  biological changes that affect the reef ecosystem is fishing. Fishing is  biological because humans are the ones doing the fishing, the poles don't fish themselves. Fishing affects reefs, because if there is too many fishes being fished, then the fishes will go down in population. On my virtual lab, I put fishing the grouper fish to 70%, which caused its population to go down to 40%, the parrot fish to 75%, the snapper to 295%, and the angel fish to 70%.

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Throughout the past 40 years, populations of elk, moose, wolves, and willows have changed in the Yellowstone area. One example is elk. In 1968, the population was three times bigger than it is now. In the summer, the elk population was from 10,000 to 20,000 elk, and in the winter it was 5,000. The elk, when so populated, ate some many young willows (plants). This was bad for the beavers, because this is the plant they used to build homes. this caused a drop in beaver population. Around this time, the wolf population was down. But, in 1995, the wolf population started to rise. All of the wolves need to eat, and so more elk were eaten. Because of this, There were more willows, which lead to more beavers, because they had the plants to build their homes. After 1995, the elk population went down to as low as only 4,000 in all of Yellowstone, when it used to be in the 10 and 20 thousands.This shows the inter relationship between different animals, and when there are more animals or more food, populations differ.

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I think, in the balance of of nature, the deer in Yellowstone’s population would be the same with or without the wolves. I think this because in 1973, the wolf population was only 16, the deer population was 2,300, but the starvation amount was 500. In 1976, the wolf population was 24, the deer population was 2,074, and the starvation amount was 2. This evidence shows that the deers population amount was not soley based on wolves. In 1973, when there were not many wolves to hunt the deer, the starvation rate was so high, so a lot of the deer died anyway. When the wolves did populate, the starvation rate went way down, but the wolves hunted way more. This means that the population stayed mostly the same. So, the wolves do not affect deer population.

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Physical and biological disruptions in an ecosystem affect populations of organisms. I know this because in the sources, we learned,"In 1980 the wolf population crashed when humans accidentally introduced the disease: canine-parvovirus." This is a physical change that affects the population of the wolves, because the disease killed so many wolves. Another example is when the text said,"In 1996, the moose population crashed during the most severe winter on record along with an outbreak of moose ticks." This is a biological change that affects the population of moose, because the living ticks sucked the blood of the moose, killing them off as well. Finally the document said, "In the late 1990s, a wolf that migrated from Canada stopped the high levels of inbreeding in the wolf population; allowing the wolves to increase despite the falling moose population." This is another biological change that affects the population of wolves, because the other wolves helped with raising the population of the wolves. This affects animals in Yellowstone.

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The CARRYING CAPACITY of an ECOSYSTEM depends on its POPULATION and LIMITING FACTORS in a COMMUNITY. Also, the number of PREDATORS there are affects the number of PREY there are, and vise versa. Most food chains in ecosystems have plant eaters, meat eaters, both, and things that break down organisms, or HERBIVORES, CARNIVORES, OMNIVORES, and DECOMPOSERS. Lastly, there is PRODUCERS who make their pwn food, and CONSUMERS who have to eat for energy.

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