Basic Amazon Rainforest Food Web

The eastern himalayas is a hot spot in india. The amazon rainforest food chain has different trophic levels that include primary producers primary consumers and secondary tertiary and quaternary consumers.

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However the rainforest can also be a dangerous place.

Basic amazon rainforest food web. The trophic level is the position that an organism plant or animal occupies in a food chain what it eats and what eats it. Bacteria fungi mushrooms and molds. These include tropical rainforest species like sawpalm twisty grass live oak parasol plant cedar etc.

This food web displays the production and consumption happening all over the rainforests of madagascar africa. An example of these in the amazon rainforest are the trees shrubs bromeliads and other plants 2. The sun provides sunlight for.

Carnivorous plants trap unwary insects jaguars prowl through the trees and anacondas glide through the rivers and streams. Lets learn more about the amazon rainforest facts about the amazon rainforest. Plants and trees fruits and nuts.

There the trees are pollinated by bees that also visit orchids and their seeds are spread by agoutis. See if you can identify all the parts of the food web that make this a functioning healthy ecosystem. Rainforest food web producers.

Amazon rainforest food web activity. This is an amazon rainforest food web. This is my amazon rainforest food web i had to make for a science project.

Highest order consumers these are the animals that are at the top of the food chain as they do not have any predators but do not necessarily eat the producers. Examples of these in the amazon rainforest are jaguars gorillas and anacondas. The amazon rainforest is the biggest rainforest in the world.

As in any other food web even in this food web the producers are plants. The primary consumers the macaws monkeys agouti tapir butterflies sloths toucans. The producers the trees shrubs bromeliads and other plants.

These organisms are bacteria fungi and certain types of insects that consume leftover waste. To understand the amazon rainforest food web first read about the amazon rainforest biome using this link. Then read about the different trophic levels of a typical food chain below.

There is an abundance of species living in the area that are threatened by humanity. In temperate rainforests primary consumers include monkeys snakes elks and other small mammals. One drug under development for treating hiv calanolide a is derived from a tree discovered on malaysian borneo.

And brazil nut trees refuse to grow anywhere but in undisturbed sections of the amazon rainforest. Decomposers or detrivores also are part of this food chain. Herbivores eat plants insectivores eat insects carnivores eat other animals.

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