The Desert Biome Food Web Diagram



The Desert Biome Food Web Diagram

Introduction

Desert Biome

The community of animals, plants and micro organisms that depend, duplicate, nourish, interrelate and live in the same environment and atmosphere represents an Ecosystem. The biodiversity of an ecosystem is protected through the existing natural habitats fortification. The biodiversity is variety of life representation in all forms including herbivores, carnivores, decomposers, micro organisms, omnivores etc in all combinations, forms and levels. The area of land with less than 25cm precipitation annually is a desert. The desert biome is followed by water scarcity, scorching solar radiations, poor soil and adaptation capabilities of organisms living in desert biome.

Discussion

Components of a Desert Ecosystem

The desert ecosystem comprises of a biotic and biotic components. The Abiotic components are not living that have impact on living organisms. These include habitat, weather, and sun light, temperature, moisture, and soil or water chemistry. The biotic factors include living organism's i.e. primary producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, and detrivores.

Food Chain in a Desert Ecosystem

The desert ecosystem comprises of lupines, datura, poppies, daisies, milkweeds, tortoise, chuckwalla, bighorn, mule, Suh hare i.e. saguaro cactus, rabbit brush, ocotillo, thorn acacias, annual flowers, Gopher snake, insects, lizards, devils fingers, quail, palo verde, Red Tailed Hawk, barrel, rodents, rats, snake, lizards, tarantulas, spiders, pin cushion, scorpion, hawk, kit fox, camels, mushrooms, kangaroo rat, hedgehog, squirrels, mongoose, arachnids, desert willow, sage brush, desert tobacco, bacteria, Mountain Lion, Kit Fox Black, Gambels, Harvester ants, Mesquite bushes Spinifex grass, tailed jackrabbit, Bud sage Saguaro cacti Bull grass worms, buckhorn, Horned lizard, cotton woods and willows to produce glucose in form of carbohydrate, fats and proteins for growth and reproduction. Being primary producers, the plants store the solar energy to provide food to consumers.

Food Chain and Food Web in a Desert Biome

Biotic components of Dessert Ecosystem

Producers

The rainfall in the deserts are much low therefore animals draw their water requirements from plants primary producers in the food chain or food web first level consists of primary producers. They are responsible to produce food and energy in the ecosystem. Plants produce their own and through photosynthesis. Without plants as primary consumer the survival of plants is necessary. Ps own food through photosynthesis. Plants prepare food through carbon dioxide, air and sun light and water from the soil conversion in to glucose. The oxygen produced by plants through photosynthesis's delivered to the ecosystem through leaves and stem that contain chlorophyll. The primary producers become a first link in food chain.

The primary desert producers include: Suh hare i.e. saguaro cactus, rabbit brush, ocotillo, thorn acacias, annual flowers, lupines, datura, poppies, daisies, milkweeds, tortoise, chuckwalla, bighorn, arachnids, desert willow, sage brush, desert tobacco, bacteria, worms, buckhorn,

Producers in a Desert Ecosystem

Consumers

Primary consumer

The primary consumer includes the herbivores that are plant eating animal and secondly linked in a food chain. The primary consumers through eating plants or small animals are fueling up to store energy and consumers give up around 90% of the energy. This represents that to sustain 10 units of ...