what happens to food chains in a forest when the forest affected by Acid Rain explain your answer
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Food chain will be destroy because if acid rain destroy deforestation than how food chain is working...
WHAT IS ACID RAIN ?
Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation with acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid that fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms. This can include rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust that is acidic.
WHAT CAUSES ACID RAIN ?
Acid rain is caused by a chemical reaction that begins when compounds like sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the air. These substances can rise very high into the atmosphere, where they mix and react with water, oxygen, and other chemicals to form more acidic pollutants, known as acid rain.
Acid rain can cause serious problems for many different animals and plants. As a result, the entire food web is affected. For example, acid rain can cause plankton in lakes to die. Insects, which rely on plankton for food, now have less food to eat, and they begin to die as a result.
As early as the 1960s, scientists observed evidence of tree damage from acid rain and other environmental pollutants in the Black Forest of Germany. First termed Waldsterben, or tree death, this phenomenon caused damage to nearly half of all trees in the Black Forest by 1990. Acid rain harms wildlife, and while most acid rain studies focus on aquatic animals, the forests are not immune to the effects of acid rain.