Kian Smith
Rainforest Food Web
Rainforest Food Web
In a tropical rain forest, there are many, many species but often fewer individuals of those species. That means there are more characters in the food web. Some examples of the organisms in a typical Central or South American rainforest are: Primary producers: trees, grass, orchids, and bromeliads. Some examples of a primary consumer are: The Jaguar and Python.
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Macaws
The macaw is important because it stops the orchid from over growing and taking up root space for other plants. They also provide food directly to the python.
Python
The python is very important to the food web as one of the primary consumers. The python keeps the fruit bat population doun, as this is the only animal that hunts fuirt bat.
Monkey
The Monkeys are good for the ecosystem of the rainforest in many ways, but one of the ways is being one of the only creatures that eat bamboo
Without them bamboo would over grow.
Competition
In the Tropical Rainforests, there is large competition for sunlight. The taller trees that have established a spot in the forest and shadow the ground. Because of that, new trees and other plants on the forest floor can't grow.
Mutualism
Ants and fungus are an example of this relationship. The ants protect the fungi from pests and mold, they also feed it with small pieces of leaves. The ants keep their larvae in the fungi that they are feeding.
Parasitism
The strangler fig starts out life on a branch, on a tree. It grows both down towards the ground, and up to the sky, while also spiraling around the tree. The strangler fig kills the tree by taking sunlight and root space after covering it.
How are humans effecting the rainforest
Tropical rainforests cover a massive amount of the world’s surface, each year over 90,000 square miles of the forests are harvested for human use. This deforestation has worried some scientist because of the release of toxic gasses from the machiens. It is believed that deforestation may accelerate the effects of global warming and transform the rainforest climate, which is bad for the animals that live there. Scientists are trying to reserch on how to restore the climate and the sections a the rainforest that were cut down and cleared from logging company's.