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Are krill the dominant herbivores in the Antarctic food web?
Krill are a key component of the Antarctic food web, serving as a primary food source for many species including whales, seals, and penguins. While they play a crucial role, they are not the dominant herbivores in the Antarctic ecosystem, as there are other herbivorous organisms like algae and small fish that also contribute to the food web.
What is a over lapping food chain?
Food web.
What group of organisms can function at any trophic level of a food web?
Omnivores can function at any trophic level of a food web because they can consume both plant and animal matter, allowing them to adapt to different energy sources in an ecosystem.
What happens when the tertiary level of a food web is decreased?
When the tertiary level of a food web is decreased, it can lead to an increase in the populations of secondary consumers, as there is less predation on them. This, in turn, can result in overconsumption of primary consumers, potentially leading to their decline. The entire ecosystem can become unbalanced, affecting biodiversity and altering the availability of resources within the food web. Overall, the decrease at the tertiary level can have cascading effects throughout the entire ecosystem.
How might an omnivore be a link to both the beginning of a food web and the end?
== == Since it is a "WEB" there is no beginning or end as you say. However there are interesting things to behold if you look at the food web from the perspective of energy flow and how different types of organisms "link or knot" together in the flow of energy through the web. Lets look at it from the perspective of the omnivore: We can entirely identify with Homo sapiens, or man. Man as an omnivore may eat plants or algae (sea weed, spirulina) which use the energy from the sun to fix carbon into energy molecules like sugar. Plants as primary producers of biologically available energy could be considered to be the "beginning" of the web. Have a salad and you have tied yourself (an omnivore hopefully) to this part of the web. This is the Herbivore in us. Being omnivorous humans can eat insects (which many cultures do) or cows, which both feed on plants and can be considered the next link in the flow of energy. We could continue eating our way through the food energy web to link to the "end" when we feast on shark or bear (also an omnivore) or lion or crocodile or any animal that eats other animals. This is the carnivore and predator in us. However this "end" may not be the end as our feces (poop) is further fed upon by bacteria or fungi (decomposer) extracting the very last amounts of bio-available energy from the biomass and returning some minerals and other nutrients to the soil, which the plants then use. This could also be considered the "beginning" of the web. The food web is a complex system that has no beginning or end and has many loops, twists, knots and folds with no edges. Picture a ball net like the ones soccer balls are kept in, but empty and folded and wadded into a pile. You can think of omnivores as the cross links between various places on the web connecting a myriad of organisms. The term food chain is antiquated and its use indicates ignorance of the complexity of life. The answer seems pretty obvious if you have adequately expressed your question. An omnivore basically eats everything. Therefore its link to the beginning would be when it eats something lower than itself on the food chain. Its link to the end would be if it were eaten by another creature. Once the predator ate and digested it, your omnivore would become fertilizer which would nourish the plants that other creatures at the lower end of the food chain feed on - maybe another omnivore. And if predators didn't pick your omnivore's carcass clean, the remaining soft tissue would rot and decay...ending up as fertilizer. I know your question used the term 'food web' and in my answer I used 'food chain' but I think you should be able to figure out how my answer translates to fit your question. It works pretty much the same way.
Is an omnivore in the food web above?
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Where does the black bear fit in the food web?
The American black bear fits at the top of the food web, as a third level consumer. This bear normally eats producers, (berries, nuts, seeds, and veggies.) If none of those are avalibale, it will eat meat. The black bear is an omnivore.
A diagram called a shows how much energy is available at each level of a food web?
a food web links all of the animals in a food chain together. a food chain shows the amount of energy in each organism. and a food pyramid shows the levels. for example, there would be source of energy at the bottom, then a herbivore on the 2nd level, then a carnivore or omnivore on the top level.
How can you tell an animal is an omnivore when looking at food web?
It eats both meat and vegetables/leaves/fruit.
What is a four level food web for chihuahuas?
puppy food
Which level of the food web is the supply of energy the greatest?
The first level
What level is the jackrabbit on the food web?
Jackrabbits are second level consumers
Each step in a food chain or food web?
trophic level
What pyramid represents the amount of energy or matter that exists in each level of a food web?
a food web pyramid
What pyramid represents amount of energy or matter that exists in each level of a food web?
a food web pyramid
What pyramid represents the amount of energy or matter that exist in each level of food web?
a food web pyramid
Where does the energy for a food chain or food web originate from?
The sun. The sun gives energy to the plants, and then the herbivores, then carnivores eat the herbivores or omnivore's eat herbivores
