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    There are two main types of food chains: 1. Grazing food chains which begin with producers like plants at the first trophic level and energy comes from the sun. 2. Detritus food chains which begin with decomposers as the first trophic level and energy comes from organic remains. A food web shows the interconnected feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. It demonstrates how organisms obtain food through different feeding methods like herbivory, carnivory, scavenging, and parasitism.

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    There are two main types of food chains: 1. Grazing food chains which begin with producers like plants at the first trophic level and energy comes from the sun. 2. Detritus food chains which begin with decomposers as the first trophic level and energy comes from organic remains. A food web shows the interconnected feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem. It demonstrates how organisms obtain food through different feeding methods like herbivory, carnivory, scavenging, and parasitism.

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    Types of food chain

    There are two following types of food chain

    1. Detritus food chain


    2. Grazing food chain

    Grazing food chain Detritus food chain


    1. The chain begins with producers at  The chain begins with decomposers as
    first trophic level first trophic level
    2. Energy for the organic phenomenon  Energy for the organic phenomenon
    comes from the sun comes from organic remains
    3. Food chain adds energy to the  It retrieves food energy from detritus
    ecosystem and prevents its wastage
    4. It supports detritus food chain by  It supports grazing food chain by
    providing organic matters providing inorganic nutrients

    Grazing food chain


    Detritus food chain

    F0OD WEB

    A food web or food cycle is a natural correlation of food chains and a graphical
    representation. Usually an image what organisms eat in an ecological community,
    another name for food web is consumption source system. The linkages in a food web
    demonstrate the feeding paths such as from where organisms are obtaining food. The
    food web is simple demonstration of different methods of feeding that links in an
    ecosystem into a unified system of exchange. There are various sorts of feeding relations
    that can be approximately split up into herbivory, carnivore, scavenging and parasitism.
    The idea of trophic level was initiated during a historical landmark paper on trophic dynamics in
    1942 by Raymond L. Lindeman

    There are two categories of trophic level

    1. The autotrophs
    2. The heterotrophs
     To take care of their body, grow, develop to breed autotrophs produce organic matter and
    organic substances including both minerals and gases like CO2 these chemical reactions
    require energy which mainly comes from the sun and mostly from photosynthesis
    although a very little amount takes place from hydrothermal vents and hot springs.
    A gradient exist between trophic levels running from complete autotrophs that obtain
    their source of CO2 from the atmosphere like carnivore plants that are autophytes that
    partially obtain organic matters from sources other than the atmosphere.
     Some of the organic matters are eaten by heterotrophs such as sugars provides energy.
    Autotrophs and heterotrophs comes in all sizes from microscopic to many tones from
    cyanobacteria to giant blue whales.

    How to interpret food web


    Interpreting food web is very important because it shows the flow of energy through a food
    chain in food web.

    In reading we start the food web from bottom with the producers and energy flows with the
    arrow directions from one organism to another.

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