When a top predator is removed from an ecosystem, a series knock-on effects are felt throughout all the levels in a food web, as each level is regulated by the one above it. This is known as a trophic cascade. The results of these trophic cascades can lead to an ecosystem being completely transformed. The impacts trickle down through each level, upsetting the ecological balance by altering numbers of different animal species, until the effects are finally felt by the vegetation.
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Explanation:
Minnesota's hardwood forests developed in the absence of earthworms. Without worms, fallen leaves decompose slowly, creating a spongy layer of organic "duff." This duff layer is the natural growing environment for native woodland wildflowers.
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Explanation:
A. Animals have muscle tissue, whereas other living things do not.
The character that contrasts animals with other living organism is the presence of muscle tissue. Muscle tissue is exclusively found in animals and are not found in any other kingdom of the living world.
Animals and many other living things posses multiple cells. Most of the cells in organisms are with nucleus.Most of the multicellular organisms have tissue level organization of the body.
Because its decayed organisms. So all the nutrients from that decayed organism goes into the soil and makes it rich with nutrients.