Currently scientists such as Peter Roopnarine, PhD, of California's academy of science are analyzing one of the "big five" mass extinction events in history to better understand the attributing factors and the role they play in today's ecosystem. By taking data recorded about this period that might have taken place in the South African ecosystem, scientist are creating and modeling food webs to determine what animals were the most vulnerable. since these extinctions happened more than two million years ago there is often not enough fossils records or geological evidence to construct perfectly complete ecosystems scientist are having to fill gaps by looking at our current ecosystem. The results from these models and test scientist described the results as shocking due to the finding that some of the results showed that even with mass amounts of biodiversity lost many of the ecosystems still managed to retain stability. Scientist are using similar techniques to determine which links in our current food web help maintain the stability .
There experiments and findings are important to our everyday lives because scientists will be able go better understand and determine which animals need to be better protected in order to prevent an entire ecosystem from collapsing . The ability to determine these key animals is important considering that we are a part of the current ecosystem and rely heavily on the current food web..
There experiments and findings are important to our everyday lives because scientists will be able go better understand and determine which animals need to be better protected in order to prevent an entire ecosystem from collapsing . The ability to determine these key animals is important considering that we are a part of the current ecosystem and rely heavily on the current food web..