Predict how an ecosystem would respond if either its producers or decomposers
were removed. Be sure to explain your reasoning.

The ecosystem would collapse if producers were removed.

Explanation:

The primary consumers populating would decrease due to lack of food and if a species doesn’t have food they most likely won’t reproduce. The secondary consumers won’t have enough food either because their prey being the primary consumers would die off. All this leads to the down fall of ecosystem.

primary succession begins with a bare rock and ends with a forest secondary succession begins after a natural disaster where there is a temporary setback after a forest fire or local destruction, but the surrounding area can fill in

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