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Draw a food web of a forest.


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Food web:

  1. The connection of several distinct food chains, which provides knowledge about the feeding relationship that one organism has with the other in an ecosystem is a food web.

Forest food web :

  1. A forest comprises a great variety of trees and organisms, and it is a composite ecosystem.
  2. The kinds of forests vary with respect to the region they are found in.
  3. The forest food web consists of distinct components like producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, scavengers, and decomposers.
  4. In the forest ecosystem, the producers are trees, which are of distinct kinds, the small plants and shrubs also produce their food.
  5. The primary consumers are deer, rhinoceros, etc. which primarily rely on the producers for their food.
  6. The secondary consumers are jackals, lions, etc. which feed on primary consumers.
  7. The scavengers comprise vultures, and eagles, which feed on dead organisms.
  8. The decomposers comprise insects, microbes, etc. which feed on decaying and dead matter.
  9. The depiction of the forest food web is as follows:


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