Biology

If finches were removed from the ecosystem in the food chain:

grass → grasshopper → finch → snake → hawk

The grasshopper population would likely increase.

Here’s the reasoning:

1.The finches are likely predators of the grasshoppers (or they may compete with other species that eat grasshoppers), so without finches in the ecosystem, there would be fewer natural predators of grasshoppers.

2.With fewer finches, the grasshopper population would have fewer threats, allowing...