Question

From june to september 1988, 51 different wildfires started in yellowstone park. By the end of the summer, approximately 794,000 acres of the park were affected, which included about 24 percent of the whitebark pine forest population, many lodgepole pine stands, and a variety of other plants and animals. Which type of change was seen in the ecosystems that were affected by the 1988 fires in yellowstone park?

Answer 1

Heat, drought and wind

Extreme weather conditions drove the 1988 fires, as they have fostered many recent fires across the West. Summers in Yellowstone are usually too cool and moist for such large fires, but the summer of 1988 was and remains the driest on record there.

Answer 2

Nearby area and trees species like lodgepole pines were completely burned by the 1988 fires in yellow-stone park.

Explanation:

• A very dry July month of 1988 had resulted in a horrible and terrifying fire that had burned a big area of Yellowstone Park of the United States of America.
• Not any or many animal species were found affected by this fire of 1988.
• Some species of plants like whitebark pine and aspen have grown again after the fire subsided.
• From the seven native ungulate species in animal category, Moose had shown the decrease in its population count after the fire.
• The population of Elk, bison, and deer had been soon rebounded.
• Grizzly bears and Mature Douglas-fir trees had no impact of fire on it.
• Such changes are to any ecosystem is known as secondary succession.

To Know More:

From June to September 1988, 51 different wildfires started in Yellowstone Park. By the end of the summer, approximately 794,000 acres of the park were affected, which included about 24 percent of the whitebark pine forest population, many lodgepole pine stands, and a variety of other plants and animals. Which type of change was seen in the ecosystems that were affected by the 1988 fires in Yellowstone Park?

A. primary succession

B. secondary succession

C. a climax community

D. species extinction

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Which type of change was seen in the ecosystems affected by the 1988 fires in Yellowstone Park?

primary succession

secondary succession

a climax community

species extinction

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