COMMUNITIES AND ECOSYSTEMS

An ecosystem is made up of different biotic and abiotic comportments through which matter and energy pass.

The way in which matter and energy are transformed between biotic and abiotic factors is food.

The linear scheme in which food passes from are organism to another.

Is the number of times by which food energy passes from one living being to another.

The set of interwoven food chain, which is how populations within the ecosystem are related.

All organisms that produce tissues from photosynthesis, chemosynthesis, or food consumption.

Are those who make their own food from photosynthesis and chemosynthesis, they are autotrophs.

They are heterotrophs, produce tissues from the feeding of the bodies or products.

Consumers

Primary

Hervibores

Secondary

Carnivores

Parasites

Tertiary

Predators

The organisms that feed on dead matter.

Detritivores consume and degrade dead matter through the digestive tract.

Consume and degrade dead matter by non-digestive enzymatic mechanisms.

Move from primary producers to consumers and saprophages through food chains.

"Energy is not created or destroyed, it is only transformed".