How Do Food Chains Get Shortened?

Answer Expert Verified
undesirable activities of man eliminate the growth of organisms belonging to one or more trophic levels in a food chain. Thus, Food chains gets shortened.

Why and how the food chains are getting shorter?

Food chains are short because less and less energy is available to animals at higher levels in the food chain.

How do food chain get shortened How does the shortening of food chain affect the biosphere?

It causes imbalance in the functioning of the ecosystem and biosphere. If organisms of one trophic level are eliminated, the organisms prior to that trophic level will flourish and increase in number and also the organisms of the subsequent trophic level will sharply decrease, thereby creating an imbalance.

James H. Sterling

James H. Sterling

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