BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Herbivore, Adaptive Radiation, Clover

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Trophic relationships food chains and food webs. How one organism depends on the other for their food source. Secondary consumers carnivores who feed on herbivores. Tertiary consumers carnivores who eat secondary consumers. Trophic levels stating where an organisms food is coming from. Trophic investigation investigated by taking out a component (organism) and observing the impacts. You perturb a system and see how it responds. Indirect effect; the carnivores will be having a beneficial effect on plants because they have a negative effect on the herbivores. By killing the herbivores, they are saving the producers: occur when you jump between trophic levels, and are very important in communities, coral islands in the caribbean (spiller and schoener) ecological communities here are very simple. If you want the role of the anolis lizard, you can remove the(cid:373) a(cid:374)d (cid:449)o(cid:396)k. he(cid:396)e, the liza(cid:396)ds eat the spide(cid:396)s. if the(cid:455) did(cid:374)"t, the(cid:374) the(cid:455)"d (cid:271)e having a beneficial impact on plants.