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What will happen to an ecosystem if:
(a) All producers are removed
(b) All organisms of herbivore level are eliminated
(c ) All top carnivore population is removed.

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(a) Reduction in Primary Productivity and biomass of producers. No biomass available for transfer to next higher tropic levels.
(b) Increase in Primary productivity and biomass of producers. Carnivore population will dwindle.
(c ) Overgrazing leading to desertification.
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