The image shows a food web in a desert ecosystem. red-tailed hawks are an apex consumer in this ecosystem.
what is most likely to happen to the ecosystem if red-tailed hawks are removed?
oa.
the population of brittlebrush would decrease because of increased predation by pallid winged grasshoppers and mantids
ob.
the ecosystem would collapse because its energy would be exhausted by increasing populations of western diamondback
rattlesnakes and elf owls.
oc.
the populations of grasshopper rice and antelope squirrels would increase because of decreased predation by western
diamondback rattlesnakes,
od.
the ecosystem would remain slable because the red-tailed hawk would be replaced by increasing populations of elf owls as apex
consumers