In a forest ecosystem, wolves hunt and eat deer. What would happen to the ecosystem if a large number of wolves were hunted and
killed by humans? Choose the two correct answers. A. The number of deer would increase. B. The number of deer would decrease. C. The vegetation in the forest would increase. D. The vegetation in the forest would decrease. E. The vegetation in the forest would stay the same.
If a large number of hunters or predators are removed from an ecosystem, then there will be, the change that will be found would be increase in the numbers of the prey in the ecosystem. Due to this increase in the numbers of prey the food resources would decrease.
In the given case, the number of deers will increase in absence of enough predators which will lead to overgrazing that will decrease the vegetation in the ecosystem.
If all the wolves were killed then the deer would not die so the number of deer would increase, what does increase mean? increase means that the number of something grows, and decrease means that the number of something would lower and lower until there are none left, or extinct
