​Humans can impact the flow of temperate deciduous forests in many ways.  By cutting down trees less oxygen is produced for animals, plants, and humans to breathe leaving a higher amount of carbon dioxide in the air. Also trees act as habitats for other species so by cutting them down we destroy places for animals, bugs, and plant life to live, as well as cutting down food for certain types of species. By dissecting the forest with roads and paths we are leaving less habitat space for deer and other animal life, as well as plant life. Humans also interrupt the flow of the ecosystem with hunting. Hunting kills off the deer population which can lead to overcrowding of plant life that deer normally consume, but at the same time keeps predators who prey on deer away because there is not as high a deer population. Just by being here humans interrupt the overall flow of the temperate deciduous ecosystem.