ECOLOGY
ENERGY FLOW AND THE FOOD CHAIN
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Question
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If a fire in the grasslands were to happen, what change would likely occur in the food web there?
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Producers would have to find a new energy source.
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There would be an increase in consumers.
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Plants would be able to produce more food.
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Animals that eat plants would move away or starve.
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Consumers include herbivores, carnivores, and decomposers. If the plants or other producers of an ecosystem were removed, there would be no way for energy to enter the food web, and the ecological community would collapse.
Detailed explanation-2: -If producers are removed from an ecosustem . it would lead to starvation and death of herbivores and subsequently the carnivores, thus terminating the entire food web .
Detailed explanation-3: -<br> (b) Elimination of all organisms of herbivore level results into an increase in primary productivity and biomass of producer and carnivorous animal will not survive due to inavailability of food herbivores.
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