EDIT… my bad… I msiread the headline, but I’ll leave my original here for continuity. //////////// Original said *sensationalist headline doesn’t match article text. Rangers explained how the cheetos messed with the food web in the cave. Not the entire planet.*
How vulnerable is an ecosystem in a cave like this to being seriously altered or collapse? Would a similar introduction of foreign molds and bacterias not occur if say a small animal was washed into the cave after a flood?
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EDIT… my bad… I msiread the headline, but I’ll leave my original here for continuity. //////////// Original said *sensationalist headline doesn’t match article text. Rangers explained how the cheetos messed with the food web in the cave. Not the entire planet.*
How vulnerable is an ecosystem in a cave like this to being seriously altered or collapse? Would a similar introduction of foreign molds and bacterias not occur if say a small animal was washed into the cave after a flood?