Coral Food Web

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Coral food web.

This is a coral reef food web. All of the interconnected and overlapping food chains in an ecosystem make up a food web. A living thing that relies on feeding on other living things for its energy eg a shark is a consumer because it eats fish or a sea urchin is a consumer because it eats algae. When making the coral food web it will be useful to understand some of the key words used to explain feeding relationships and the transfer of energy on the reef.

A food web is a diagram showing the transfer of energy between species. Food webs consist of different organism groupings called trophic levels. Natural history museum 35 233 views. There are just the right amount of predators and prey within the aforementioned trophic levels.

For example a queen conch can be both a consumer and a detritivore or decomposer. Life on a coral reef natural history museum duration. Coral reef food web and trophic cascade. The primary consumers the coral sea turtle and fish.

In this example of a coral reef there are producers consumers and decomposers. These are the questions we ll answer as we explore the food web and ecosystem of coral reefs. A highly diverse ecosystem such as that of a coral reef has a naturally larger more comprehensive food web. A food web is basically the collection of all the food chains in a single ecosystem.

Food webs protect the fragile balance there is between species. The producers the phytoplankton on the ocean s surface. Anasik yadegarian 486 views. We are the coral food brand which was established in 1999 it launches large scale wholesale trade ensuring the company s continuous growth in the fishing industry.

See if you can identify all the parts of the food web that make this a functioning healthy ecosystem. We start to see the importance of the balance set by the food webs when we see the consequences of anthropological interferences in those food webs. The food webs are a very important factor in the safeguard of the coral reef ecosystem. What is a food web.

Similarly a single organism can serve more than one role in a food web. Ucla marine biology eeb 109 collaboration.