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What most likely happened to the herbivores and smaller carnivores in those local food change immediately after the predators disappeared?
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If all predators disappeared, the number of herbivores and smaller carnivores will increase in number.
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What most likely happened to the herbivores and smaller carnivores in those local food chains after the predators disappeared?
Their populations increased.
Why predators play an important role in any ecosystem?
Here is a simple but concise answer to your complex question. Ecosystems require carnivores for balance. Without carnivores, plants are are devastated by a surplus of herbivores, and thus cannot survive. This in turn threatens the herbivores with starvation, which is a much more painful death than being preyed upon by carnivores. Essentially, carnivores prevent plants from being wiped out by excessive herbivores, and save said herbivores from starving. By eating them. Sounds harsh, but the alternative is ecological collapse.
What would happen if number of herbivore decline?
If herbivores were removed from the planet, the food chain wouldn't have a bottom. Some carnivores eat smaller carnivores, but the lowest carnivore on the food chain would die if herbivores would be removed, causing a chain reaction and, well, the carnivores that eat that carnivore would die, and the carnivores that eat THAT carnivore will die... etc. The world would be a total mess.
What are the key roles or niches that organism fill in their habitat?
The key roles or niches that organisms fill in their habitat are producers, primary and secondary consumers (herbivores, carnivores and omnivores), predators, prey, scavengers and decomposers.
What are the five levels of the food chains?
Level 1: Plants and algae make their own food and are called primary producers.Level 2: Herbivores eat plants and are called primary consumers.Level 3: Carnivores which eat herbivores are called secondary consumers.Level 4: Carnivores which eat other carnivores are called tertiary consumers.Level 5: which have no predators are at the top of the food chainLevel 6: Which is us because we are top top predator of every food chain
What most likely happened to the herbivores and smaller carnivores in those local food chains immediately after the predators disappeared?
their populations increased
What most likely happened to the herbivores and smaller carnivores in those local food chains after the predators disappeared?
Their populations increased.
Are lions prey or predators of zebras?
Lions (carnivores) are predators of zebras (herbivores).
Are predators herbivores or carnivores?
Predators generally eat other living animals, which'd make them carnivores, meat eaters.
Is crab eater seals carnivore herbivores producers consumers predators?
They are carnivores, consumers, and predators.
How are eagles and parrots different from each other?
Eagles are carnivores, parrots are herbivores
What role does the owl play in the food chain?
tertiary
What are some animals that are herbivores omnivores and carnivores?
Omnivores are animals that are both herbivore and carnivore. For example, Humans are Omnivores, unless they are vagan or strictly vegetarian. Carnivores are predators. They hunt down other animals. Herbivores eat plants.
What carnivores eat moose?
Moose are herbivores, they don't eat meat they eat plants. Bears , wolves and humans are the predators that eat moose.
What carnivores do moose eat?
Moose are herbivores, they don't eat meat they eat plants. Bears , wolves and humans are the predators that eat moose.
Why are herbivores eaten by carnivores?
Herbivore animals mainly compose of preys (Goat, horse, cow, ect.) which are a bait to predators (snake, lion, eagle, ect.)
What wetland predators eat muskrats?
foxes, snakes, hawks, in other words, carnivores because muskrats are herbivores. I mean Omnivores, depends on the environment around them.
