SCIENCE
ECOLOGY
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Question
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All of the organisms would die
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The primary consumers would increase
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The primary consumers would decrease
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The producers would increase
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Detailed explanation-1: -In an ecosystem without primary consumers, there would be no food for higher consumers and they would experience a population crash.
Detailed explanation-2: -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. That’s because energy isn’t recycled. Instead, it dissipates as heat as it moves through the ecosystem, and it must be constantly replenished.
Detailed explanation-3: -If an organism is removed from the food chain, it spoils the flow of energy and nutrient in the ecosystem. It disrupts the balance of the food chain. As a result, the organisms which depend on others for food will die due to starvation.
Detailed explanation-4: -So, if the primary consumers all will become extinct, the producers will not be eaten at all. Hence, producers will become overpopulated in that ecosystem and will remove all the key nutrients from the soil by reproducing in abundance. There will be no food available for the secondary consumers, so they will die.