CAIE IGCSE Biology 19.2.10 Human Impacts on Food Chains & Webs
Practise using feeding links to explain how overharvesting or introducing a foreign species changes populations in a habitat.
- Syllabus
- 2026–2028
- Course
- Biology 0610
Practise using feeding links to explain how overharvesting or introducing a foreign species changes populations in a habitat.
A student recorded the information about an aquatic habitat.
Fig. 4.1 shows the student's notes.

Fig. 4.1
Humans also eat salmon.
Predict the impact on the feeding relationships shown in Fig. 4.1 of overharvesting of salmon.
any three from:
fewer herons (as less, food / salmon) ;
more, mayflies / stoneflies / (freshwater) shrimps (as less salmon to eat them) ;
fewer midges (as more stoneflies) ;
fewer/more, no change in, aquatic plants (as more, mayflies / freshwater shrimps / fewer midges, feeding on them) ;