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How the food-...

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How the food-chains get shortened ?

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Man is an intelligent organism. To get advantageous position, he can eliminate one or more trophic levels by his activities. For example, see food-chain A and B.
By eliminating deer man has got more energy from plants and this is resulted in a shortened food-chain.

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