Tuesday, May 24, 2011

4.5 b (Food Webs)


+ Food webs allow us to provide a good description of the ecosystems -> composed of community of organisms which are communicating.
+ In this case feeding.
+ Advantages: shows feeding at different trophic levels:
+ 1. Oraganisms have multiple predictors
2. feeding on multiple prey
3. results in linked food chains
+ In this case the Hawk acts as both a secondary consumer and a tertiary consumer.

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