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How has the growth of the population effected the ecosystem?

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  • 8 years ago
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    We'll you can talk a lot about this, but the main thing you should know is: it affects the size of resources in an ecosystem. Simple animals will use up more resources, and will eventually lead to a shift inside the food chain. Furthermore, the increase I population size is also more likely to increase the population of decomposers, as those who fail to obtain resources will die out, and their dead tissues will be decomposed. More dead bodies means more decomposers. So the producers more likely to be plants will decrease in population...and decomposers are more likely to increase. Furthermore, the increase in the population may brought about for predators in the ecosystem, as preys become more noticeable. This eventually lead to the increase in the variations of species in a ecosystem, as more predator species come hang around. There will also be more reproduction among the species as well. More importantly because the size of population increase mathematically at a faster rate than the size of the resources, animals will die out leading to natural selection within an ecosystem,

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