Food web interactions

Although depictions of food websafety often show direct single line paths of consumption from producer to consumers on various trophic levels like food chains do,they can also show the way in which some organisms diverge from these patterns for example larger carnivores and omnivores whose diets are not limited to a few types of animals may also primary consumers if given the opportunity. In addition many organisms within a food web may be part of several food chains within that ecosystem for example squirrels eat a variety of food including nuts,fruits,seeds and insects. food chain , in ecology , the sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism. Food chains intertwine locally into a food web because most organisms consume more than one type of animal or plant . Plants, which convert solar energy to food by photosynthesis , are the primary food source. In a predator chain,...