Desert Animals And Plants Food Chain

A food chain is a series in which each organism feeds on the one below it.

Desert animals and plants food chain. Different animals and plants are found in different habitats. The food chain usually consists of a producer a consumer and a predator. The top of the desert food chain does eventually die though and is returned to the bottom of the chain as nutrients by decomposers.

Decomposers like fungi and bacteria complete the food chain. When it feels threatened it can roll up into a small ball to expose its quills to predators. Providing traditional medicine for humans as well as food and shelter for animals.

At the basis of the food chain plants help with water retention and so a source of water and nutrients for many animal species. Consumers Herbivores eat only plants. Gila woodpeckers like to eat fruitsberriesseedsand flowers from the desert also grasshoppersbeetleschuckwallasand centipedes as wellAlso they swallow food whole.

In a food chain you begin with one plant. Secondary consumers prey on the primary consumers. Some are called scavengers as they feed on dead animalsFinally there are decomposers like desert mushrooms and bacteria and worms which decompose the dead animals.

The plants are adapted to desert conditions but have not changed the conditions to make it easier for new plants to grow. Food chains are usually short and not more than three or four links. Its diet mainly consists of insects.

Food Chains and Food Webs - Balance within Natural Systems With a continued focus on the Sonoran Desert students are introduced to the concepts of food chains and food webs. In any environment including a desert most primary producers are autotrophs who produce food from energy like plants. Consumers are organisms that cannot harness energy directly from the physical environment.