Question

Which of the following might be affected by the loss of a plant species?
a.

Only organisms that feed directly off the lost plant species will be affected.
b.

Other plant species will be affected, but no other organisms will.
c.

Multiple organisms may be affected by the loss of a plant species.
d.

No other organisms would be affected.

Answer 1

C.Multiple organisms may be affected by the loss of a plant species.

It's a chain reaction, for example, giraffes eat plants like leaves and twigs of acacia, but there are no more plants. Giraffes won't have any food and its population will decrease. Lions eat giraffes but there are little giraffes so lions will probably decrease and eat another animal or prey. That prey will also decrease as it is now the Lions primary prey.

I hope that makes sense

Answer 2

Answer:

c.  Multiple organisms may be affected by the loss of a plant species.

Explanation:

We all know that all the animals on this earth depend upon plants for food either directly or indirectly because they can't synthesize their own food. Herbivores depend upon plants directly for their food whereas carnivores depend upon plants indirectly for their food. Carnivores hunt herbivores so if herbivores will exist then only carnivores will survive otherwise they will starve.

In this case, if herbivores particularly feed upon this plant species which is lost then the population of these herbivores will be reduced because there will be less food and the herbivores will compete each other for the food intraspecifically  or interspecifically. As a result of which the carnivores feeding on such herbivores will also undergo same type of competitions and their population will get reduced too.

Apart from this certain type of plant plant interactions also exist in nature. If this plant species is lost then some other plant species may get benefited. When this particular plant species will get vanished then some other plant species will find ample space to grow and there will be less competition for food and water for them because of destruction of this plant species.

So, multiple organisms will get affected.