Imagine a community with a single predator, two herbivores, and five primary producers (8 species total). How many food web links are theoretically possible? That is, how many links are possible if each species is able to feed on every species in the community?
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Food webs are limited representations of real ecosystems as they necessarily aggregate many species into trophic species, which are ...
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Food web is believed to be a community or interconnection in which various food chains are represented by telling us what eats what.
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- There are 2 trophic levels involved in a food chain according to the ecologist – Heterotrophs and Autotrophs.
- Autotrophs require chemical energy or reactions that come from the sun and they also produce organic and inorganic substances.
- On the other hand, heterotrophs feed on autotrophs.
- In a community of so many species, the number of linkages would be 64 (8 multiplied by 8) telling one species can feed on the other.
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