Question

How does disruption in the food chain affect the ecosystem?

Answer 1

The impact of ecosystemdestruction are the following: Increased flooding due to the erosion of soil and lack of trees. Rising of the sea levels due to the melting of the glaciers, caused by Global Warming. Disruption of the food chain when the apex predators become extinct.

A food chainsymbolizes the path of energy within an ecosystem: Primary producers such as green plants translate solar energy into carbohydrates, which are then tapped by primary and secondary consumers and ultimately recycled by decomposers.

Answer 2

1.A food chain symbolizes the path of energy within an ecosystem:

• Primary producers such as green plants translate solar energy into carbohydrates, which are then tapped by primary and secondary consumers and ultimately recycled by decomposers.
• Each tier represents a different trophic level.
• While a food-chain model shows a simplified linear sequence, it can be visualized with other interlocking and overlapping pathways in a given ecosystem to create a food web, which illustrates the same idea in a more complex and realistic way.

2.An ecosystem exists to utilize energy and cycle matter:

• The former -- in most cases, continually resupplied by sunlight and captured by photosynthetic organisms -- flows through the trophic levels, while matter is used over and over again.
• The eating at the heart of a food chain is how the energy essential for growth and function is accessed by those organisms -- heterotrophs -- which can’t produce their own fuel. A food chain therefore is one of the foundational elements defining and giving shape to an ecosystem.