KEYSTONE SPECIES: SEA STAR

Keystone Species: Sea Star

Keystone Species: Sea Star

Whenever a species finds a place favorable for living and reproducing, it discovers that other species think so too. Competition begins. After a long time of evolution, species differentiate in a way that each survives on its skills that the other does not have. Thus, evolution tends to minimize competition. Likewise, predators develop skills to catch and eat others, each predator species with slightly different skills so that they do not need to compete. At the same time, the prey develops better defenses.

Since organisms influence other communities in which they live ...