1991). For example, the predators of a scorpion in a desert ecosystem might be a golden eagle, an owl, a roadrunner, or a fox. The idea to apply the food chains to ecology and to analyze its ...

that play their part in the world's ecosystems. A primary consumer eats a producer. The rabbit is the primary consumer in the example food chain. This is in turn eaten by a secondary consumer ...

For example, plant species harness ... biological process provides the base of the food chain for myriad animal consumers. At the ecosystem level, the total growth of all plant species is termed ...

What is uncontested is that the disappearance of any apex predator from any food chain impacts their prey populations. Apex predators play a crucial role in maintaining ecosystem balance by ...

that play their part in the world's ecosystems. A primary consumer eats a producer. The rabbit is the primary consumer in the example food chain. This is in turn eaten by a secondary consumer ...