2007-02-17 11:03:51 · 7 answers · asked by emando16 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
How would it effect our ecosystem?
2007-02-17 11:15:05 · update #1
Other large carnivorous animals would eat their food supply, and become more abundant. The effect on salmon would be negligible, as we are talking a few thousand bears at most, and millions of salmon.
Coversely, if salmon went extinct, the bear population would be severely affected, because they rely on salmon to fatten up before winter hibernation.
2007-02-17 13:07:38 · answer #1 · answered by Labsci 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Grizzly bears as top of the food chain have very little effect on the environment. 99% of salmon live their lives without ever encountering a bear. The bears cream off a tiny percentage of the salmon population.
So if they became extinct, it wouldn't really affect the environment. But the world would be a poorer place.
2007-02-17 11:25:07 · answer #2 · answered by Gnomon 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It would mess up the food chain. No grizzly bears= over population of salmon= salmon overflowing the rivers and eating each other to keep the salmon population down-there would be many salmon eggs everywhere... And the people who live out in the country wouldn't be able to have bear skin rugs, etc...
2007-02-17 11:25:25 · answer #3 · answered by totyonia 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
shall we no longer even think of roughly it guy it may be this variety of shame. i think of there is no longer lots left in the international now you notice all this programmes with reference to the polar bear and how they could holiday for days even months just to locate some nutrition. I seen a programme approximately people who observed a million single polar bear for 3 month and it ought to by no ability locate nutrition so it resorted in attempting to attack a heard of sea lions and have been given actual harm only attempting to get some nutrition. yet who is conscious if it is going to ever ensue we by no ability know i know some are stored in zoo's yet its much greater valuable seeing them in the wild.
2016-11-23 15:38:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There would be no more grizzly bears. Salmon would be happier?
2007-02-17 11:11:19 · answer #5 · answered by Kalinakona 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
there would be an effect in the ecosystem since they shift the dirt then the soil would get soft so if seeds happen to fall there would be a good chance of growing plants.
2016-01-13 14:27:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
salmon populations would become to abundant.
2007-02-17 11:18:23 · answer #7 · answered by KV Birtay 1 · 0⤊ 3⤋