In a food web, the numbers of each organism typically exist in a relatively stable proportion. If an oil spill killed a large amount of zooplankton, what would be the next thing that would happen?

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In a food web, the numbers of each organism typically exist in a relatively stable proportion. If an oil spill killed a large amount of zooplankton, what would be the next thing that would happen?

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