why is food chain temperory and food web permanent
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Explanation:
Food chains give us a clear-cut picture of who eats whom. However, some problems come up when we try and use them to describe whole ecological communities.
For instance, an organism can sometimes eat multiple types of prey or be eaten by multiple predators, including ones at different trophic levels. This is what happens when you eat a hamburger patty! The cow is a primary consumer, and the lettuce leaf on the patty is a primary producer.
To represent these relationships more accurately, we can use a food web, a graph that shows all the trophic—eating-related—interactions between various species in an ecosystem. The diagram below shows an example of a food web from Lake Ontario. Primary producers are marked in green, primary consumers in orange, secondary consumers in blue, and tertiary consumers in purple.
Food chains are limited to 4-5 trophic levels because energy losses between trophic levels restrict the length of food chains and the biomass of higher trophic levels.
Food web is a complex network formed of many food chains. Food web has many cross linkages. There is no effect on other organisms in the food web if any organism dies in it. It has many populations of different species.