Afungus colonizes the meadow and kills most of its vegetation. what is most likely to happen to the populations of herbivores and carnivores in the ecosystem?

While most carnivores hunt and kill their prey, scavengers usually consume ... Herbivores, or organisms that consume plants and other autotrophs, are the second trophic level. ... They keep an ecosystem free of the bodies of dead animals.

-The populations of herbivores and carnivores will decline because less chemical energy will be stored in the ecosystem.

Explanation:

Plato/Edmentum

primary succession occurs in essentially lifeless areas regions in which the soil is incapable of sustaining life as a result of such factors as lava flows, newly formed sand dunes, or rocks left from a retreating glacier. secondary succession occurs