What is a Food Web?
A food web expresses the different feeding connections between the organisms of an ecological community. A disturbance in the food web can result in drastic changes to any biome. Certain species will overpopulate and other species can become extinct and alter the delicate balance of the biome.
There are many parts to a food web: the sun, primary producers, decomposers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. Each part has a major role in the food web and it cannot function properly without it.
There are many parts to a food web: the sun, primary producers, decomposers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and tertiary consumers. Each part has a major role in the food web and it cannot function properly without it.
Energy Flow of the Taiga Biome:
Energy flow is essential to an ecosystem because it is the process of how every living organisms obtains it nutrients and energy from. Without proper energy flow, a biome becomes out-of-whack and can lead to series altercations within a particular species of animals.
The energy flow primarily starts with the sun. The sun provides energy for producers like trees, short grasses and shrubs that provide nutrition to the primary consumer level. The Primary Consumer level includes animals such as rabbits, deer, caribou, and other organisms that eat specific producers. After the primary consumer level is the secondary consumer level consisting of smaller carnivores like weasels, wolverines, foxes and many other types of animals.Next is the tertiary consumer level consisting of bears, predatory birds like owls and eagles, large predatory cats, and other tertiary consumers that eat secondary consumers. Some larger carnivores, such as lynxes and wolves which prey on the larger animals are also under this level. The decomposer level is the last in the pyramid which feeds on the dead and decaying matter.The energy flow continues as such unless there is a disturbance in the biome.
Why is the Food Web so Important to Ecology?
The food web is extremely important to ecology because it balances the many biomes it affects. It also demonstrates how an animal adapts or changes to their environment. If that is the case, the food web will also adapt and change according to the organisms. The food web is what primarily makes the world-go-round. It is an essential and indispensable part of ecology that many organisms depend on.