Animals In The Desert Food Chain

Only about 2 Kilocalories per square meter per year are stored in their bodies.

Animals in the desert food chain. The food web works in a strange way in the Outback. The small rodents and insects and lizards eat the plants. Insects Lizards Apache Pocket Mouse Kangaroo Rat Desert Cottontail Jackrabbit.

A grizzly bear is an omnivore. Simultaneously the plants depend totally on the unpredictable desert environment. It starts of with the sun.

In the Mojave the desert kit fox is one of the secondary consumers that feeds on cottontail. The availability and timeliness of moisture the intensity of seasonal temperatures and the organic richness of the soil. Another example would be of the horned lizard that feeds on herbivores and takes place of the secondary consumer in the food chain.

An ecosystem among them is Desert Food Chain Pictures is an ecological unit that consists of all the interacting parts of an environment in a location. Again we see cold-blooded animals such as snakes insect-eating lizards and tarantualas. Food chains and food webs in the Mojave Desert are similar.

Small Predators - Secondary Consumers. They learn the difference between producers and consumers and study how these organisms function within their communities as participants in various food chains. Medium Predators - Tertiary Consumers.

There is less variety within the community of organisms relative to tropical biomes or even the temperate rainforest biome of BC in the biosphere as the conditions are much harsher. 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 wolf has been extirpated from the Mojave Desert by man however man and his motor vehicles have taken the place of the wolf as the primary killer of coyotes.