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27/01/2022 5:56 pm
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What will happen to an ecosystem if:
(a) All producers are removed;
(b) All organisms of herbivore level are eliminated; and
(c) All top carnivore population is removed
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27/01/2022 5:57 pm
(a) Reduction in primary productivity. No biomass available for consumption by higher trophic levels / heterotrophs.
(b) Increase in primary productivity and biomass of producers. Carnivores population will subsequently dwindle due to food shortage.
(c) Increase in number of herbivores
- Overgrazing by herbivores
- Desertification