What would happen if there was a larger amount of primary consumers than producers?

The answer is quite simple - it is not possible. Life on Earth would cease to exist Ultimately, all energy in ecosystems comes from the Sun. The only way that the solar energy from the Sun can be trapped by living organisms is through plants and photosynthetic bacteria.(That's because plants have a green pigment in their leaves called chlorophyll) Producers are always at the bottom of the food chain, because they are autotrophs, that is, they can make their own food (in the form of glucose) using the Sun's energy (water and carbon dioxide are also needed, which Earth has a lot of!) Plants are very inefficient; only 10% of the sun's energy is trapped by their chlorophyll.

Primary consumers are those organisms that get their energy requirements by feeding on, or consuming, these plants (Consumers are also known as heterotrophs because they obtain energy from a different source) Secondary consumers feed on primary consumers and tertiary consumers feed on the secondary consumers and so on. At each trophic (energy) level that means that 90% of the energy has been transformed into heat from metabolic processes.So by the time the energy reaches the tertiary consumer, that organism has only received 0.1% of the original energy from the Sun! That's pretty mind-boggling to think how much life the Sun can support!

So as you can see, if there was a larger amount of primary consumers feeding on plants, plants would become extinct and life could not exist. Life depends on capturing the sun's energy and consumers are not capable of this fundamental physiology.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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