Question

A simple food web of five organisms A-E is shown below:

In organisms C were suddenly to be removed from the food web, how would the populations of organisms A, D, and E are affected? Explain your answer.

Answer 1

If organism C is suddenly removed from the food web, the populations of organisms A and D will be least affected, while the population of organism E will decrease. This is because E directly depends on C for food, so its population will diminish without C, whereas A and D are less affected because of their other food relationships in the web.