The food chain evolved as a single system that has all species working in tandem to control each other. When you remove links from the food chain, the entire chain falls apart.
For example, in Yellowstone, hunting wolves because they are a nuisance to humans caused their prey, elk, to overpopulate and consume all of the plant life along the rivers. Consequently, the rivers began to erode the soil and prevent many other animals from making the area their home. https://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-july/how-wolves-saved-the...
For example, in Yellowstone, hunting wolves because they are a nuisance to humans caused their prey, elk, to overpopulate and consume all of the plant life along the rivers. Consequently, the rivers began to erode the soil and prevent many other animals from making the area their home. https://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-july/how-wolves-saved-the...