Today we read about species invading areas that are not their usual habitat and causing problems. Apparently the lionfish is one of those species. The lionfish has begun invading the eastern Atlantic Ocean (near the eastern coast of the United States). This is now causing problems because the lionfish is a predatory animal that has few enemies in our waters. It is consuming near 80% of the younger fish in coral reefs in the Bahamas. Someone might think this is not a big deal but the slightest change in the food web of a habitat can be devastating. The lionfish consuming that large of a percentage of the juvenile fish depletes the food supply for other species as well. This ca cause those species to reduce in number and so on and so forth. Please check out the video above as well as the ones below for more information regarding the introduction of a new species into a habitat and the effects of that introduction.
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