Role of the Jaguar on its environment:
The jaguar is an apex predator, which means that is an animal at the top of the food chain with no or nearly no predators. This species has been classified as a keystone species, which means that it has a very large effect on its environment relative to their abundance. It has been shown that a species at top of the food chain is essential to maintain the ecological integrity in the area. The loss of the jaguar, a species that accomplishes such features, would represent dramatic changes in the interaction among other species within the food web. An example of this would be the increase that small and mid-sized carnivores and preys' populations would undergo.The jaguar is as well assumed to control the populations of its preys such as herbivorous and granivorous mammals.
However, determining flawlessly the environmental and ecological importance that the jaguar has on its habitat is difficult, because data must be compared among the regions in which the jaguar once was present but is not currently and the areas in which the species is present nowadays.
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| Jaguars at Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England. |
Controvertial Question:
ReplyDeleteI think that it is important to preserve this jaguar, but it is also important to generate economic income and development. What I suggest is to build security systems that avoid jaguar's damage to the economy and to protect it. These security systems can be national parks, walls, etc.
Ideas to Preserve the Species:
I think that the ideas you proposed are very improbable, because people can't moove their lands, because it would generate economic troubles, there's no more land to use that has the same conditions generating a bad change, etc. I suggest, to create security systems and to educate people to control jaguars to avoid killing these animals. Also, to generate laws and legislations that forbid their hunting and ilegal trading, in all countries that have their presence.
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