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Sea Otter:
This image shows a sea otter in a kelp forest. Sea otters live along the coasts of the Pacific Northwest in kelp forests and feed primarily on sea urchins and other crustaceans. Kelp forests are highly diverse ecosystems and provide nursery habitat, food, and shelter for various marine mammals, fish, and invertebrate species. A simplified food chain is provided below:
Sea otter --> Sea urchin --> Kelp
Predict how species diversity would change if sea otters disappeared from kelp forests.
A. Diversity would increase because invertebrate species could multiply without predation.
B. Diversity would not change because another predator would fill the niche left by the sea otters.
C. Diversity would increase because other species would move into the kelp forests to fill the niche left by the sea otters.
D. Diversity would decrease due to the sea urchins consuming the kelp and removing an essential habitat for other species.
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