Coniferous+Evergreen+Food+Chains

Here are some examples of a singular, focused food chain for the Evergreen Coniferous Forest as well as a Food Web for the Biome. (Hand Drawn Food Web of the Evergreen Coniferous Forest done by Virginia Johnson)

In the food web above the red arrows represent the flow of energy from one organism to another, which is only 10% (5-20%) of the energy from the previous supplier. The arrows link each organism in order of tropic levels from the producer to the tertiary consumer. Eventually and the organisms die and return to bacteria in the ground. The producers are the White Spruce and the Christmas Fern. The primary consumers are the moose, the blue jay and the beaver. The secondary consumers are the fox, and at times the wolf and bald eagle. The tertiary consumers are the wolf and the bald eagle. They are the apex predators of the Evergreen Coniferous Forest. All of the primary consumers except for the blue jay are herbivores, the blue jay is an omnivore. As of the Secondary consumers, the fox is an omnivore. The tertiary consumers are both carnivores. (Hand Drawn Singular Food Chain of the Evergreen Coniferous Forest done by Virginia Johnson)

In this food chain the bunch berry is the producer, the primary consumer and herbivore is the snowshoe hare, the secondary consumer and omnivore is the marten, and the tertiary consumer, apex predator, and carnivore is the great horned owl. The arrows from each tropic level to the next is the energy flow and represents a loos of 90%. The arrows from each organism to the bacteria represents the decomposition of that organism.

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