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What might happen to the organisms in the food web below if the number of phytoplankton and vegetation drastically decreased?
A food web titled Chesapeake Bay Waterbird Food Web. It shows a very complex food web with many different food chains of various species displayed in 5 categories: Producers, Herbivores, Primary consumers, Secondary consumers, Tertiary consumers.
The small fish and wading birds would be affected.
Only the small fish would be affected.
The small fish, bivalves, and invertebrates would be affected.
The entire food web would be affected.
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The entire food web would be affected.
Phytoplankton and vegetation are the primary producers that supply energy to herbivores and primary consumers (zooplankton, bivalves, invertebrates, small fishes). A drastic loss at that base reduces available energy and food, causing population declines or shifts in all higher trophic levels and cascading effects throughout the web.
Phytoplankton and vegetation are the primary producers that supply energy to herbivores and primary consumers (zooplankton, bivalves, invertebrates, small fishes). A drastic loss at that base reduces available energy and food, causing population declines or shifts in all higher trophic levels and cascading effects throughout the web.
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