Question

What will happen if primary consumers are removed from a food chain?

Answer 1

Answer:

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If all the primary consumers in an ecosystem were removed there would eventually be an increase in producers and a decrease in secondary and tertiary consumers. This would happen because the main food source for secondary consumers are primary consumers they would slowly start dying out because of the lack of food sources which are the primary consumers. And once the secondary consumers start dying so will the tertiary. But all this wouldn't happen immediately because there would be other sources to eat, such as producers

Answer 2

Answer:

Without the primary consumers, there would be no source of energy for carnivores or secondary consumers so no secondary consumers will exist in that ecosystem.

Explanation:

• Primary consumers are the only organisms in the ecosystem that are able to generate the energy stored in producers.
• So, if the primary consumers all will become extinct, the producers will not be eaten at all. Hence, producers will become overpopulated in that ecosystem and will remove all the key nutrients from the soil by reproducing in abundance. There will be no food available for the secondary consumers, so they will die. So plants, and some other producers like photosynthetic bacteria will be the only organisms in the ecosystem, besides the decomposers.