Coral Food Web

We start to see the importance of the balance set by the food webs when we see the consequences of anthropological interferences in those food webs.

Coral food web. Food webs protect the fragile balance there is between species. There are just the right amount of predators and prey within the aforementioned trophic levels. Crabs larger fish squid and octopi feed on these primary consumers. The secondary consumers the sharks anemones starfish baracuda jellyfish sea snakes and sea slugs.

For example a queen conch can be both a consumer and a detritivore or decomposer. What are the primary producers in the coral reef food web illustration. The primary consumers are zooplankton corals sponges atlantic blue tang and queen conch. The primary consumers the coral sea turtle and fish.

This is a coral reef food web. Many species of fish coral shrimp and starfish eat the zooplankton. Other spooky looking animals like the angler fish. The primary producers are blue green algae phytoplankton zooxanthelle seagrass and brown algae.

A living thing that relies on feeding on other living things for its energy eg a shark is a consumer because. In this example of a coral reef there are producers consumers and decomposers. The food webs are a very important factor in the safeguard of the coral reef ecosystem. See if you can identify all the parts of the food web that make this a functioning healthy ecosystem.

Similarly a single organism can serve more than one role in a food web. The producers the phytoplankton on the ocean s surface.