A logging company wants to cut down all hardwood trees in a local primary mixed forest. At a town meeting, the corporation argues that grasses, shrubs, and pine trees will still remain, so there will be little impact to the ecosystem. Which of the following is most likely the response of a local ecologist?

Residential construction is expanding in florida, the expansion has caused fragmentation of habitats, one of the results of the increased construction is a decrease in the number of large predators such as the coyote, black bear and pool panther, which will be the most immediate local result of this fragmentation? 1)large predators will become extinct 2)decrease in middle sized predators 3)increase in population of top carnivores 4)increase in population of prey species