Tuesday, 12 April 2011

Food Web

A food web is a graphical description of feeding relationships among species in an ecological community, that is, of who eats whom (Fig. 1). It is also a means of showing how energy and materials (e.g., carbon) flow through a community of species as a result of these feeding relationships. Typically, species are connected by lines or arrows called "links", and the species are sometimes referred to as "nodes" in food web diagrams.




Figure 1. A coastal food web in Alaska based on primary production by phytoplankton, and ending in predators of both land and sea. (Image courtesy U.S. Geological Survey)

You may try to build up a food web by enter this link :Dog Holding Halloween Pail Animated Clipart
http://www.gould.edu.au/foodwebs/kids_web.htm

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