Indicator Species

Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides)

Snow Leopard (Panthera uncia)

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

Symbiosis
Commensalism:
The giant panda and bacteria share the symbiotic relationship of commensalism. This is
because the panda benefits but the bacteria are neither helped nor harmed. The
Clostridium bacteria float in the stomach of the pandas, aiding in the pandas digestion,
vitamin production, and immune system shaping.

Giant Panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca)

clostridium cellulolyticum
Parasitism:
The eimera grus and the hooded crane share the symbiotic relationship of parasitism.
This is because the eimera grus benefits but the hooded crane is harmed. The eimera
grus bacteria infect the stomach of the hooded crane, causing the bacteria to steal
nutrients from the crane and in the process, the crane to lose nutrients.

Eimeria gruis

Hooded Crane (Grus monacha)

Mutualism:

The lyophyllum palustre fungus and the spartina antiflora share the symbiotic
relationship of mutualism. This is because both the lyophyllum palustre and the spartina
antiflora are benefitted. The fungus colonizes the spartina antifloras roots, giving
access to carbohydrates to the fungus and access to phosphorous to spartina antiflora.
the fungus colonizes the host plant's roots,

Lyophyllum palustre

Spartina Antiflora

Food Web Diagram:

Ecological Pyramid:

references
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304420311000351
http://traveltips.usatoday.com/plants-animals-near-yangtze-river-54931.html
http://www.yangtzeriver.org/culture/yangtze-river-wildlife.htm
http://en.wwfchina.org/en/what_we_do/living_yangtze/
http://csiwhalesalive.org/NpWangDingCurve01.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Snow_leopard_portrait.jpg
http://assets.worldwildlife.org/photos/144/images/hero_small/Giant_Panda_Hero_image
_(c)_Michel_Gunther_WWF_Canon.jpg?1345515244

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111017/full/news.2011.596.html
http://genome.jgi.doe.gov/cloce/cloce.jpg
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186%2Fs40657-014-0006-6
http://www.askjpc.org/vspo/pics/dp02.jpg