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What happened to the bio diversity of an ecosystem when the top of predator is deliberately removed from the ecosystem in which it lives

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The most obvious result of the removal of the top predators in an ecosystem is a population explosion in the prey species. ... When prey becomes more scarce, the predator population declines until prey is again more abundant. Therefore, the two balance each other. When the predators are removed, prey populations explode.

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