Why is it important that numbers of animals and plants in an ecosystem remain stable make up an example to show your point?

Answer 1

It is important that the population size of animals and plants to remain stable so the food chain runs fluidly. If you had a major increase or decrease of a species then that would cause drastic change to the environment. For example: given the food chain of grass, a grasshopper, a frog, a snake and a hawk if the grass population went under then the grasshopper, frog, snake and hawks population would drop because the grasshopper would eat the grass and without grass than the population would decrease along with the other. But if the frog population decreased then the grasshopper population would increase from the lack of frogs but the grass would decrease from the overpopulating grasshoppers while the snakes would decrease with the hawks. After a while though, despite the drastic over- or underpopulation, the environment would find a way to get itself stable once more.

Answer 2

It is important for the numbers of animals and plants in an ecosystem to remain stable because they form a delicate balance that supports the functioning of the entire ecosystem. For example, if there are too many herbivores consuming all the plant life, it could lead to a decrease in plants and disruption of the food chain, affecting predators and other species that rely on those plants for food or habitat. This imbalance could result in a cascading effect that harms the overall health and diversity of the ecosystem.