What is the relationship between a decrease in available energy to the producers and the overall ecosystem?
1 Answer
There is a direct relationship between the energy available to producers and the overall ecosystem.
Explanation:
The more energy available to the producers the more food the producers can make using photosynthesis. The increase in the food will increase the base of the food pyramid increasing the amount of organisms at every trophic level.
(note there may be limiting factors that interfere with this relationship. In the desert there may be more than sufficient energy available but without adequate water the plant producers in the desert can not make use of the abundant solar energy. Likewise in the arctic and alpine regions the available sunlight can not be utilized because the chemical reactions necessary for photosynthesis can not take place in the extreme cold temperatures. )
