Question

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF PREDATION IN AN ECOSYSTEM

Answer 1

Advantages & Disadvantages of Biological Control. Controlling pests with their natural enemies, including parasites, predators, diseases and competing organisms, is called biological control. It is an alternative to using broad-spectrum pesticides, which kill off beneficial insects as well as pest organisms.

Answer 2

Advantages of predation in an ecosystem:

Predation kills the old and rusticated ones of the ecosystem and the young ones of the ecosystem leaving behind more food and supplies for the developing ones thus the ones which develop more are able to function well in the society of the animals.

Disadvantages of predation in the ecosystem:

Predation kills the young new generation of the animals in the ecosystem leaving behind no longer any new generation for the next generations to come.