Environment & Ecology · Environmental Studies
In the following simplified terrestrial food chain: Grass → Deer → Tiger If extensive illegal poaching drastically eliminates the population of deers, what will most likely happen to the ecosystem after a few years?
- 1Tigers will immediately change their physiological feeding habits to herbivory
- 2The population of tigers will decrease due to starvation and lack of prey✓
- 3Tigers will increase in population due to lack of competition
- 4The biomass of grass will start to rapidly decrease
Correct answer
The population of tigers will decrease due to starvation and lack of prey
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