The prairie dog is also an ecosystem engineer.
Due to the increases in technology and a rapidly increasing population, humans have more influence on their own environment than any other ecosystem engineer.
Filter feeders can play an important role in clarifying water, and are therefore considered ecosystem engineers.
Additionally, some species are ecosystem engineers, altering the environment within a localized region.
It is an ecosystem engineer, opening up dense thicket and woodland for more open-habitat species.
Seagrasses are ecosystem engineers in the sense that they partly create their own habitat.
Grizzly bears function as ecosystem engineers, capturing salmon and carrying them into adjacent wooded areas.
An ecosystem engineer is any organism that creates or significantly modifies habitats.
Jones et al. identified two different types of ecosystem engineers:
The zebra mussel is an ecosystem engineer in North America.