A Cut Tropical Forest: Community Level (Part 3)
The scale and pace of the current worldwide destruction of the tropical rainforests is astonishing. This blog series is exploring how the cut forest is affecting various levels, including the individual, population, community, ecosystem, and biosphere. Part 3 explores the impacts of the loss of forest on the community level of an endemic frog.A community is defined as an organism and the organisms of which it interacts. On the small scale, the complete loss of the endemic frog would likely have a small effect on the overall community. Endemic creatures tend to be rare and it is unlikely that many organisms depend heavily on the frog for food or other services. If another organism, say a snake, has specialized to feed only on this frog or its eggs, the snake also would likely be lost if it is not able to adapt quickly to a more generalized diet. Furthermore, the prey (small insects) would show some release from the lack of the predator but again, if the frog is rare, the effects would not be very great on rapidly reproducing and abundant insect species (common attributes of many small insects).
Taking a look at the bigger picture, the cutting of the plot in the cloud forest is large enough that the stability and composition of the entire community will be impacted and members will have to alter their behaviors quickly. Ultimately, the local community will have to be dissembled in an effort for individuals to survive and begin a new life in a different expanse of forest. Large, mobile organisms such as birds (Aves), big cats (Felidae), tapirs (Ungulates), terrestrial snakes (Serpentes), etc., in addition to many flying insects (Insecta), will have the opportunity to flee the plot and establish new ranges elsewhere in the undamaged forest. This may prove difficult for the large predators, like cougars and jaguars (Felidae), that need large tracts of land free of con-specifics for their home ranges, but at least on the short term they will have a good opportunity for survival (provided they are not killed by workers clearing the forest). The smaller, less mobile (including fossorial) organisms will have a greater difficulty reaching intact forest. Movement of some organisms (e.g., parasites, insects) will be made in conjunction of other larger components of the forest community (on birds or mammals). Fossorial animals, often cryptozoic and moisture dependent, will find their environment drying quickly from the lack of canopy cover and will not be able to move fast enough through the soils to reach other forest plots. Some small organisms will thrive in the small tree areas left for shade for the cows, but intra- and interspecific competition will be intense and resources likely limited. However, the balance of their natural cycles, and hence the stability of the system, will have been disrupted and species will go extinct from the shade tree oases.
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If another organism, say a snake, has specialized to feed only on this frog or its eggs, the snake also would likely be lost if it is not able to adapt quickly to a more generalized diet. Furthermore, the prey (small insects) would show some release
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