This figure shows a food web of an ecosystem. What would happen to the food web if all of the species of the entire row B was wiped out by a natural disaster such as an oil spill? Why?
a. The tertiary consumers would die out due to lack of food and this could potentially lead to collapse of the entire food web.
b. the producers may die out, causing the food web to collapse.
c. the food web might suffer from loss of primary producers for a while which would then recover quickly, thus, reviving the ecosystem.
d. the food web would not be affected as the secondary and tertiary consumers would become primary and secondary consumers, respectively.
