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But there's a very simple calculation of what's required, how many plants are required for the herbivores to live, how many herbivores for the carnivores to eat, etc., that you have to balance actively.
They're herbivores.
Most herbivores supplement a leafy diet with higher energy foods like fruit and seeds.
One of the reasons why could be that it scares away insects or it looks less appealing to herbivores.
And there just aren't enough herbivores like parrotfish left out on the reefs to mow it all down.
And they looked at the herbivores.
And they weren't savanna herbivores.
Feed grain to herbivores, pesticides to monocultures, chemicals to soil, chicken to fish, and all along agribusiness has simply asked, "If we're feeding more people more cheaply, how terrible could that be?" That's been the motivation, it's been the justification: it's been the business plan of American agriculture.
Most of the biomass is low on the food chain, the herbivores, the parrotfish, the surgeonfish that eat the algae.
We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too, like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.
Then you go to Palmyra Atoll that has more biomass of herbivores, and the dead corals are clean, and the corals are coming back.
I thought the big cats stuck to hunting herbivores, but apparently the producers knew better).
This means that once predator species become depleted, fishing pressure shifts towards plant-eating fish species, leading to precipitous declines in the numbers of herbivores on coral reefs.
When coral populations decline in the aftermath of cyclones, diseases, and other disturbances, it is the herbivores that keep seaweed in check, and allow coral populations to recover.
The logic seems impeccable, and it is true that the vast majority of the planet’s 400,000 plant species do contain chemical defenses (poisons) to defend themselves from grazing herbivores.