An ecosystem experiences a severe wildfire that wipes out all plant and animal life.Which sentence is true?A. Only abiotic factors were destroyed by the wildfire, but even if the biotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem can never return to stability.B. Plants and animals were destroyed by the wildfire, and even if the abiotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem can never return to stability.c. Only abiotic factors were destroyed by the wildfire, so if the biotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem can return to stability.D. Plants and animals were destroyed by the wildfire, but if abiotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem can return to stability.

The stability of an ecosystem refers to the ability of an ecosystem to return to equilibrium after a perturbation such as a wildfire, for example, the ecosystem was a forest before the wildfire, and then it can return to being a forest after the fire.

If a severe wildfire wipes out all plant and animal life, then the biotic elements of that ecosystem are destroyed, and a secondary succession begins to take place. This not necessarily means that the same species would colonize.

We are between two options that correctly identify the plants and animals as biotic factors:

B. Plants and animals were destroyed by the wildfire, and even if the abiotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem can never return to stability.

D. Plants and animals were destroyed by the wildfire, but if abiotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem can return to stability.

The first colonizers in a secondary succesion are plants such as grass and herbaceous plants, and the kind of plants that can grow in a place depends on the soil characteristics, sunlight, and water supply, i. e. abiotic factors. So, if the abiotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem should be able to return to stability.

This means the right answer would be D. Plants and animals were destroyed by the wildfire, but if abiotic factors remain the same, the ecosystem can return to stability.