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If the bald eagle was removed from this food web what effect would this have on this population of the other species?

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As tertiary consumers, bald eagles depend on all the levels below them for energy. If their population increases, the ecosystem wouldn’t be able to support this growth because the population of prey animals—sea ducks and fish—would rapidly decrease. This decrease might cause the populations of primary consumers to increase. As a result, primary consumers might feed more on the producers. Over time, there may not be enough producers to maintain the food web.

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Answer: The benthic invertebrates would decrease in population size because they are eaten by the sea ducks and the phytoplankton would increase in population size.

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