Process: How do I design a Food Web?

As an Ecologist you will be studying the feeding relationships of a biome/ecosystem of your choice.
Below are the biomes and ecosystem of the world, choose one and design a representative food web.

Steps of Food Web Design:

1. Choice a biome/ecosystem to study from the list below
2. Identify the local plants and animals and record them on the
template provided
3. Design a food web
4. site all sources using APA reference style

Biomes: Rainforest, Tundra, Taiga, Desert, Temperate, Grasslands

Freshwater Ecosystems: Rivers and Streams, Ponds and Lakes,
Wetlands
Marine Ecosystems: Shorelines, Temperate Oceans, Tropical Oceans

You will find additional information on your biome/ecosystem of study

on the following sites:

http://www.mbgnet.net/

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/index.php

http://www.blueplanetbiomes.org/world_biomes.htm

http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/biomes.html

http://kids.nceas.ucsb.edu/biomes/index.html

Suggestions for food web design: use a word processor and color key
to design food web, use picture representations of organisms
downloaded from internet and uploaded into word processing
document, illustrate pictures of organisms by hand…. any other
creative ideas