Timeline for Which plant species would be most likely to recover after a decade of no light?
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| Jul 19, 2018 at 14:09 | comment | added | Pink Sweetener | @notstoreboughtdirt Cicadas would be dead. They don't go totally dormant, but rather bury themselves underground as larvae, where they munch on tree roots. No tree roots, no more cicadas. All animals rely on plants to survive. Unless there is some stimuli to put them in a 10 year dormant state, all dead. As L.Dutch notes, that includes water bears and a few other tiny critters. Some vernal pond animals, like trilobites, might survive. Can't think of much else. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 16:12 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | @notstoreboughtdirt, maybe. but none of them is a pollinator for the plants. Not for the vast majority of them, at least. I know the "corpse flower" rely on flies to carry pollen, but that's a minor case. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 16:07 | comment | added | user25818 | I'm not totally convinced all animals would be dead. Flies might survive on rot, some cicada's probably would be fine by being dormant, some scavenger and cannibal species might be able to spiral down for 10 years. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 15:00 | comment | added | Pink Sweetener | How did I entirely miss the fauna component of this question? | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 11:31 | comment | added | jean | Some cave animals can now thrive all around the wolrd and fungus will feast for a decade over all that orgnic matter. Of course marine life will be disrupted etc. After a decade all that fungus and the new darkness ecossystem will start to fall apart and again lots of organic matter ling around etc. The only thing I cannot see on the answers is hoe marine life will comeback without fitoplancton | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 9:00 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | @Gianluca, good point then. Added to my answer | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 8:44 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2018 at 8:26 | comment | added | user1092803 | not really all of them. For example, the Proteus I cited can survive eating his own larvae and little crustaceans (in very little quantity) and it is showed in experiments that can live 10/12 years without eating, They already live like that, so to them nothing change. | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 6:12 | comment | added | user1092803 | You should add the animals that are adapted to live in a cavern, like the Proteus anguinus, and the extremophiles which are not just bacteria, but it is true that are a very limited number (seen as species number) | |
| Jul 18, 2018 at 4:42 | history | edited | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2018 at 4:10 | history | answered | L.Dutch♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |