Why predators play an important role in any ecosystem?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

Predators would need plants in there ecosystem becase usually there prey will be the ones eating the plants. The prey of the predators eat the plants for food, but if there were no plants there would be no food for the predators prey, so then both species would eventually die out.

Answer 3

There important because without predators no animals would get eaten which means that herbivores would eat all the plants and eventually the regeneration rate of plants etc. wouldn't be able to cope with the amount of demand. its also important to keep numbers down so that species don't excel which would inevitably take up too much space and too much food. so in conclusion having predators allows the plants to grow and to be able to feed the herbivore's. It also allows numbers so stay at a consistent and steady rate.

Answer 4

Plants feed herbivores, carnivores eat herbivores

Carnivores tend to be predators

Answer 5

Constant predation of the top consumers prevents a population from growing larger than the system can support.

Answer 6

Plants are eaten by the herbivorous which the carnivores hunt

Answer 7

Plants being producers is the base of any ecosystem

Answer 8

Because their prey eat the plants

Answer 9

to balance out the food chain