How will a food chain or food web be affected if one of the organism is removed from an ecosystem?

Answer 1

If an animal were to be removed from a food chain, the entire ecosystem could easily fall apart or futhermore be destroyed. Say that a herbivore such as a mouse that feeds on grass was too be removed. And that the mouse would be eaten by a snake..the snake population would decrease from starvation and the grass would increase.

Answer 2

The thing being removed from the food web wouldn't be able to give it's energy to the next thing waiting to eat it, which will also effect everything after it. After from where the specie is removed the food chain will be destroyed and all the animals will die in starvation. It's like prey and predator. If the predator population decreases, it will die in starvation and won't have any energy to hunt, making the prey population go up. So in this case, until where the specie is removed everything before it gets it's energy.

Answer 3

if one organism is remove,the predator will increase and the predator might look other organisms and interact to other food web or a food chain

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Answer 4

yes, of course they do. They can find an alternate meal because 10% of their energy travels to the next species, but they still depend on one another. But, if you are at the top of the food chain, the last species may over popullate yet it isn't ads big a deal is as if inscects die out. ALOT of animals would die.

Answer 5

When one predator is removed from a food web, their preyâ??s population increases. Then, the food source for that prey will decrease in number from overeating.

Answer 6

Drastically, it could even make the whole ecosystem die off! It is pretty much a domino effect.

Answer 7

if 2 organism is remove,the consumer