Food Chain In Congo Rainforest

Simplifying the food chain of the rainforest is somewhat helpful for understanding it better so lets start with the four main levels of the food chain or web.

Food chain in congo rainforest. Rainforest food chains are the pathways along which food is transferred between different trophic levels within rainforest ecosystem. Giving shelter to ants and feeding Okapi. The Secondary Consumers the genet tree cat and eagle.

An exception is carnivorous plants on the photo below but there are very few of them in. They get 100 of the energy. These companies bring large groups of people into the forest who need food and fuelwood.

First Level - Autotrophs aka Primary Producers. Chapter 2 - The Congo Rainforest. Many medicinal products that humans use grow only in the rainforest and scientists believe they have only studied 1 of the plants that might have medicinal use.

Food Chain for the Congo Basin Rainforest Producer Primary Consumer Secondary Consumer This is an insect larvae which eats the forest leaves. The Primary Consumers the okapi mouse deer monkeys chimps and apes. This is a food webThe crocodile the lion the leopard and surprisingly the frog are at the top of the food web.

Flora and Fauna of the Congo Rainforest. When something happens to one link it affects the entire chain. The Tropical Rain Forest.

At the lower level of the trophic level are the insects fungi and bacteria. Example in the rain forest food chain to the left the arrow leads from the figs to the sloth from the sloth to the jaguar and so on. There is a decrease in trees which is causing the soil to become loose.