Imagine a simple food chain: Grass - > Grasshoppers - > Mice - > SnakesIf snakes that eat mice are added to the ecosystem, would you expect the amount of grass to increase or decrease

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Annabella Gray

Biology

17 October, 05:16

Imagine a simple food chain: Grass - > Grasshoppers - > Mice - > SnakesIf snakes that eat mice are added to the ecosystem, would you expect the amount of grass to increase or decrease

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Penny · Answer 1

Decrease

Explanation:

If the snake population is increased, it would prey on more and more mice and would cause a decline in the mice population. A decline in the mice population would cause an increase in the grasshopper population due to a lesser number of their predator grasshoppers. The increased grasshopper population would feed on more and more grass and would cause a decline in the amount of grass. Therefore, an increase in the number of top predator snake would adversely affect the primary producer "grass" of the given food chain.