https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx well en-us 2018-02-02 15:42:32 UTC 2025-11-13 15:28:09 UTC hello@padlet.com doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/227539068 Yellowstone wolves should be protected by the Endangered Species Act because hunters shouldn't be allowed to hunt in Yellowstone, or hunt wolves in protective custody from Yellowstone. Another reason is because wolves population is low, compared to other animals that hunters could kill, such as rabbit or deer. The third is because if the gray wolf goes extinct, an iconic predator will go extinct fracturing the food chain, and disrupting the ecosystem. ]]> 2018-02-02 15:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/227539068 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/227548708 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1748DBUoY2jYlcNsL6_DT6GGd7XGl3xL5ib8I7heoNGs/edit#slide=id.g2ed1d30ea5_0_13

https://www.livingwithwolves.org/wolf-issues/the-political-debate/]]> 2018-02-02 16:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/227548708 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/231597385 2018-02-14 17:06:21 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/231597385 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/232392118 2018-02-16 16:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/232392118 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/232410159 A threatened population is when a specific animal in an ecosystem faces loss in population from predators, climate change or global warming, the pH level of water, or any environmental problems. In this case, the staghorn coral is threatened or endangered due to climate change from global warming. Global warming is when high levels of co 2 is released in the atmosphere causing the earth's temperature to rise. The staghorn coral is a major example of a victim of climate change in an aquatic ecosystem.  Fish in the coral reef ecosystem are impacted by this plant's population decrease, because different prey eat this plant. If this plant dies, the prey die too, meaning the predator dies. In the Gizmo, increasing the temperature causes major decrease in population when measuring the animals rate in a graph. There is a minor exception for the algae. In the gizmo, over time acidic water causes a slow impact on stress on organisms and plants in the aquatic ecosystem. As the pH level increases, the water becomes more acidic causing plants and organisms to slowly die over time. This proves that certain life is affected by life, according to the gizmo, causing a chain reaction, causing all sorts of aquatic life to die. This is an example of how certain factors affect the relationships in ecosystems. Some data collected for the staghorn coral would include for 20% Storm Severity, 33 degrees. C, pH 8.1 is 5. The original data collected is all 100. This is a major  ]]> 2018-02-16 16:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/232410159 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/238191652 In Yellowstone, wolves were removed from the ecosystem to increase the population of elk, and moose. When wolves were in the ecosystem,  too many elk and moose were killed causing the species to be threatened. Without the wolf, the elk and moose population increased. The willow is a typical thing in the diet of the moose and elk, so because of the increase of population, the willow's numbers decreased. Because willows provide nutritional value towards water and in general, the beavers numbers also decreased. Yellowstone representatives came to terms that the wolf was a factor that determined the balance of the Yellowstone ecosystem, thus they added the wolf back. Because of this addition, willows numbers rose,  and elk and moose numbers were balanced. For example, the wolf population was 0, the elk population was 2,000, and the willow numbers were 500. In the next 10 years, the wolf is reintroduced. The elk population is now 1,000, the willow numbers are 800, and the wolf population is now 250. So the moose's decrease in Yellowstone had a completely different cause. The moose's population decreased because of disease, climate change, and forest fires. All of these things caused the decrease of moose. Disease was a big cause, not just to the moose. Disease could spread between animals, but the main factor that killed the moose, no other animal, was disease. If the specific ecosystem numbers decreased or increased, it probably wouldn't affect them much, but the willows loss might affect the moose. Overall, it was disease. ]]> 2018-03-05 16:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/238191652 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/239262635 2018-03-07 16:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/239262635 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/240204014 2018-03-09 15:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/240204014 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/241612632 The reason why the Yellowstone Ecosystem fluctuates during 1995 and 2016 is because of outside factors. Ticks and canine disease are two leading outside factors that cause the fluctuation between the time periods. This is so,, because human's interaction in 1995 caused a disease to spread among the wolves, and eventually the numbers of wolves went up gradually. In the periods of 2008-2016 the numbers are balanced. Even though the government started protecting the wolves in the 1990s, in 2008 the government announced the Gray Wolf in Yellowstone no longer endangered. Still threatened, it would seem that humans did not interact with the wolf causing the population to be balanced. This is why what the graph shows is what it is. ]]> 2018-03-13 20:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/241612632 doughertyky1 https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/249894782 2018-04-09 16:11:31 UTC https://padlet.com/doughertyky1/9axr943bngqx/wish/249894782