Question

A migratory bat species pollinates agave plants in northern Mexico on its way to the southwestern United States where it spends the summer eating insects and reproducing. Farmers spraying pesticides affect these bats, which eat the insects and also feed them to the baby bats. This could be the start of a story about ________.

-threats to a keystone species
-an extirpation
-insect biodiversity
-sustainable agriculture
-an umbrella species

Answer 1

Answer:

Threat to a keystone species

Explanation:

Keystone species are organisms that play a unique and crucial role within the ecosystem, that is, regulating the environment to help maintain a balanced habitat. Removing these organisms will result in an unbalanced ecosystem, this will affect other organisms and can lead to biodiversity degradation.