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Consumer organisms, from herbivores to apex predators, are essential for energy transfer in ecosystems. Their feeding relationships sustain food chains and maintain ecological balance. For a detailed description, click on the article title.
Food chains channel energy through ecosystems across 510M sq km, from plants to predators in a vital sequence. For a detailed description, click on the article title.
(Self-feeders) In a food chain, organisms produce their own food (mostly green plants).
A diagrammatic representation of decreasing biomass in a food chain.
A diagrammatic representation of the loss of high quality, concentrated energy passes through the food chain.
A natural law stating that high-quality, concentrated energy is increasingly degraded as it passes through the food chain.