What Impact Does The Lynx Have On The Ecosystem

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Animals and plants all of the world help each other in a certain way. Some more than others but they all benefit from one another. I claim that changes to living/non-living parts of an ecosystem do impact populations within the ecosystem. With the cat, Lynx, there was a lot of things it helps with. For example, the Lynx eats rabbits and deer. Since rabbits and deer eat leaves and grass, with less of the population there are more space for grass and leaves to grow which help get rid of greenhouse gases. Without the Lynx there would be more rabbits and deer that will be eating the leaves and grass which then make a better chance for greenhouse gases to affect the animals.The bears eat the Lynx which helps keep their population down so that

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