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This is a food web found in a lake environment. The food web consists of phytoplankton, zooplankton, minnows, crayfish, otters, pike, and bass. Phytoplankton- microscopic marine algae and is the base of several aquatic food webs Zooplankton- animal component of plankton, limited power of locomotion Minnow-…

Aquatic Food Web and Trophic Levels

May 23, 2021

A food chain is described as a “sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organisms to organisms” (definition from www.britannica.com) However since most organisms eat many things, these food chains turn into food webs. For each ecosystems theres a…

How Mercury Gets Through This Food Chain

May 17, 2021

This food web visually shows what animals and plants live in Haiti and their transfer of energy. The arrows point to what each animal eats. I labeled one example on the web of each level but there are more species that fit into the category.…

Food web in Haiti

May 4, 2021

First trophic level – Seagrass Second trophic level – Shrimp, Prawn Third trophic level – Small fish, Sea bird, seal, fox, killer Whale The food web above shows an average ecosystem of an overfished area before this issue is done. The food web starts with…

Overfishing Food web

May 4, 2021