The animals the lynx eats would get more numerous. The plants and animals that those target animals eat would get scarcer. Whatever they in turn feed on multiplies. The effects work down from that top predator and equilibrium populations of everything in the forest changes.
Perhaps Goggle wolf effect on environment because the impact of wolf populations has been studied a lot.
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what would happen to the forest environnment if the lynx started being hunted for their skins?
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Here, click through these 10 pictures
http://www.motherjones.com/slideshows/2011/04/wolves-protect-climate-change/seated-gray-wolf-yellowstone
http://www.motherjones.com/slideshows/2011/04/wolves-protect-climate-change/seated-gray-wolf-yellowstone
For example from that link:
" Reason #1: Without wolves and other large predators, ecosystems can go haywire. A 2001 study (PDF) found that when wolves went extinct in Yellowstone, for example, the moose population ballooned to five times its normal size and demolished woody vegetation where birds nested. As a result, several bird species were eliminated in the park."
" Reason #1: Without wolves and other large predators, ecosystems can go haywire. A 2001 study (PDF) found that when wolves went extinct in Yellowstone, for example, the moose population ballooned to five times its normal size and demolished woody vegetation where birds nested. As a result, several bird species were eliminated in the park."
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The animals the lynx eats would increase. The plants and animals that those target animals eat would decrease. Whatever they feed on multiplies.
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