food web is a set of interconnected food chains. It is also called the food network.
The food web represents the many relationships between organisms in an ecosystem.
Ecosystem is the place or environment in which mutual relationships develop between all beings that inhabit it.
See also the meaning of ecosystem.
The same living being inserted in an ecosystem can belong to different food chains, playing different roles.
It can feed another living thing or serve as food. In this process, food chains end up meeting and forming a food web.
Food chain
food chain is a sequence of living beings that divide into producers, consumers and decomposers.
In the food sequence, living beings feed on those who precede them in the chain, and then are eaten by those who are following, according to the hierarchy.
The cycle of the food chain begins with the living beings that produce them, which are represented by plants, algae, and some types of bacteria and protozoa.
Primary consumers feed on producers. Next come the secondary consumers (which feed on the primary consumers), and the tertiary consumers (which feed on the secondary consumers).
Decomposers are bacteria and fungi that return to the food chain the decomposed matter needed to feed producers, closing the cycle.
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