They are cooler and drier than tropical rain forests. Abiotic factors, or nonliving factors, of a temperate rain forest include temperature, water, cloud cover, soil and light. These abiotic factors interact with biotic, or living factors, to form the rain forest's unique ecosystem.
<span>Animals gradually adapt to changes within their environment over time. This gives them a better chance of surviving rather than going extinct because of the change. Say there is a gene mutation affecting color within a population of beetles in a rain-forest. All of the beetles used to be red, but now a few of them have experienced a gene mutation and are green. Because they live in a rain-forest, it is likely that the green beetles would blend in with their surroundings far better than the original red beetles, and those red beetles would be wiped out by predators because they are easier to spot. The green beetles would live on and flourish, and their population would increase. Soon there would be few or none red beetles, and many green beetles.</span>
Answer;
Without the keystone species, the rocky inter-tidal ecosystem would be dramatically different or cease to exist altogether
Explanation;
Keystone species have low functional redundancy. This means that if the species were to disappear from the ecosystem, no other species would be able to fill its ecological niche.
For instance; the starfish Pisaster ochraceus is a keystone species in the rocky marine inter-tidal communities off the northwest coast of North America. It feeds on the mussel Mytilus californianus and is responsible for maintaining much of the local diversity of species within certain communities.
Earth systems cause a continual co-evolution of Earth's surface and the life
