What is a food chain for temperate forest?

Answer 1

The direct food chain starts with the plants converting minerals, moisture, and CO2 into plant growth, and this directly supports various animals and insects.

The plants also indirectly provide a symbiotic environment for mosses and ferns.

There is also an epiphytic environment created for algae, and lianes.

Upon the plant death, it provides food for various decay organisms such as fungi and bacteria.

The animal food chain process follows alongside the plants, and makes no great demands other than of food. But birds and animals do construct shelters from or among vegetation.

Answer 2

In a temperate forest, a food chain may start with producers like plants or trees, which are then consumed by primary consumers like insects or herbivores. The primary consumers are in turn eaten by secondary consumers such as small mammals or birds. Finally, the secondary consumers may be preyed upon by tertiary consumers like larger predators or carnivores.