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What animal or insect going extinct would have the greatest impact on the ecosystem? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Curious on some replies here. I always hear having bees go extinct would be horrible for us. Curious if that’s the worse?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oceanic plankton produces like half of the world's oxygen. Trees get too much credit. I'm not sure what the exact impact of losing so much oxygen would be, but... Not good?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Plankton isn't an animal or insect though, it's algae and bacteria

My vote goes to worms. Without them huge amounts (like the vast majority) of land will become dead after a few years. Worms are very underrated

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s an interesting take I don’t think anybody else has said worms yet

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