The reason why the food web would recover after the de-population of the heterotroph is because other organisms would feed on the food that the heterotroph used to consume.
What is a food web?
This is a term that is used to refer to all of the food chains that are in existence in a particular ecosystem.
The heterotrophs when they are depopulated would cause a decrease in the producers and reduce the available energy in the web.
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