What happens to a population of predators, perhaps a pride of lions, if their prey, say the gazelle population, in their area was to suddenly decline? How would this affect the pride? How would the pride have to survive? Provide a possibility of how the change to the ecosystem would affect the predator populatio?

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Travis Mckee

Biology

17 January, 06:09

What happens to a population of predators, perhaps a pride of lions, if their prey, say the gazelle population, in their area was to suddenly decline? How would this affect the pride? How would the pride have to survive? Provide a possibility of how the change to the ecosystem would affect the predator populatio?

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Cheyanne Kaiser · Answer 1

1. Since the Lions are the predator and Gazelles are the prey therefore a predator-prey relationship exists between them. The predator-prey relation is also associated with the food chain in an ecosystem. If the number of prey is reduced then there are chances that the number of a predator will also be reduced but

2. The Lion is not just the predator of Gazelle but other animals also like deer therefore they can shift their resource of food from gazelles to another organism.

3. The change of the ecosystem will change the population of the predator as the population are adapted to grow in a particular ecosystem and change of population could reduce the population of a predator.