CONCLUSION
Why the Siberian Tundra is an important part of the world's ecosystems and why it should be protected.
The Siberian tundra contains thousands of animal and plant species, including hundreds of endangered ones. To protect these species and ensure their survival, we need to protect their ecosystem and their habitats. The plants and animals that are found in the Siberian tundra have adapted and learned how to live in such harsh areas, if we continue to change these areas and ruin them, many species will be out of place and will have to keep adapting to keep up with their habitats. But not many will survive. If certain species, like certain birds that live there in the winter, once part of a food chain, disappear, it would cause devastating changes to other species dependant on them. The tundra is a huge factor in global biodiversity.
Not only is the tundra home to many organisms, it also plays a large role in the temperature regulation of our planet. Weather and air currents caused by warm air rising from the tropical zone and cooling in the Tundra, returning to the equator could change drastically. This change in climate could alter the world as we know it.
The permafrost is another important factor of the Siberian tundra. It helps scientists track climate change through the centuries and alerts them of how fast we've been altering the world since the Industrial Revolution. But that's not the only important thing about permafrost. It also acts as Earth's largest carbon sink. The permafrost traps a lot of carbon and keeps it from escaping to the atmosphere, but if temperatures continues to rise, this carbon store could start gradually releasing carbon into the atmosphere, as permafrost melts. This would not only harm the species native to the region, but potentially the entire planet. This could speed up climate change.
Everything in the Siberian tundra plays its part, has a niche, but if one little detail changes in the whole web of things, the entire web will alter.
The Siberian tundra contains thousands of animal and plant species, including hundreds of endangered ones. To protect these species and ensure their survival, we need to protect their ecosystem and their habitats. The plants and animals that are found in the Siberian tundra have adapted and learned how to live in such harsh areas, if we continue to change these areas and ruin them, many species will be out of place and will have to keep adapting to keep up with their habitats. But not many will survive. If certain species, like certain birds that live there in the winter, once part of a food chain, disappear, it would cause devastating changes to other species dependant on them. The tundra is a huge factor in global biodiversity.
Not only is the tundra home to many organisms, it also plays a large role in the temperature regulation of our planet. Weather and air currents caused by warm air rising from the tropical zone and cooling in the Tundra, returning to the equator could change drastically. This change in climate could alter the world as we know it.
The permafrost is another important factor of the Siberian tundra. It helps scientists track climate change through the centuries and alerts them of how fast we've been altering the world since the Industrial Revolution. But that's not the only important thing about permafrost. It also acts as Earth's largest carbon sink. The permafrost traps a lot of carbon and keeps it from escaping to the atmosphere, but if temperatures continues to rise, this carbon store could start gradually releasing carbon into the atmosphere, as permafrost melts. This would not only harm the species native to the region, but potentially the entire planet. This could speed up climate change.
Everything in the Siberian tundra plays its part, has a niche, but if one little detail changes in the whole web of things, the entire web will alter.