What might happen to the organisms in the food web below if the number of phytoplankton and vegetation drastically decreased? Th
e small fish and wading birds would be affected. Only the small fish would be affected. The small fish, bivalves, and invertebrates would be affected. The entire food web would be affected.
Explanation: Because the small fish eat the plankton and the birds eat the fish, and other things eat the birds etc. etc., technically if the number of phytoplankton and vegetation dropped, it would cause everyone else to have a lack of food
A volcanic winter is a reduction in global temperatures caused by volcanic ash and droplets of sulfuric acid and water obscuring the Sun and raising Earth's albedo (increasing the reflection of solar radiation) after a large, particularly explosive volcanic eruption.