The Daintree Rain forest Ecosystem

Flow of Energy

Tropic Pyramid, and Examples in the Daintree Rainforest!

Flow of Energy

When I look at the green arrows in my interactions I can see a pattern that a resource like water, grass, and insects have a flow of energy with all of the consumers. I can also see that in order for the producers like grass and to grow it need energy from the sun. Lastly, for the yellow footed fungi to live, it decomposes all of the consumers like the spotted cuscus, gonna, and insects/mosquitoes.

Cycling of Matter!

What cycles are in this ecosystem and why there are more producers than consumers?

The matter in this ecosystem(Which) includes all ABIOTIC and BIOTIC parts) has a cycle that starts with the producers growing and getting energy. Then it continues to the consumers who eat the producers for their energy. Next it goes up to the apex predator who eats the consumer. Once the consumer has died off it gives the fungi/decomposer energy, and gives the plants time to grow. And since there is no food for the predator they die off too. Then the consumer comes back and the cycle repeats.

Other Cycles:

1) Carbon cycle

2) Water cycle

3) Nitrogen cycle

The difference between!

The Difference

The difference between the cycle of matter and the flow of energy is that the flow of energy represents a organism consuming energy to make it survive and grow. The cycle of matter shows non-living and living things in a cycle and how they are connected.

Why do we have more producers than consumers?

Why is important?

It is important to have more producers than consumers because you need to have a equilibrium for the ecosystem to survive, and then you have to have more plants so that when the consumers eat it all, then they will die off and the producers will come back. This will repeat and stay equal. But if there wasn't more plants then there wouldn't be any biodiversity and or equilibrium.

Mutualism

Butterflies will travel ALL together so that they are safe. This is mutualism because it is a connection between all animals where they all will benifit in some way. By staying together they wont get lost and they are more protected.

Mutualism

Predatory

The gonna eats small insects that benefit the gonna but the insect dies after being eaten. This is predatory because one will benift, (The snake) because it gets energy to survive, and one will die, (The insect) because they will be killed while giving energy to the snake..

Predatory

Competition

The Epitype and the ferns have competition for sunlight, and to grow with all the shade from other organisms. This is competition because both organisiams are fighting fo the same thing (Sunlight) and they are againts eachother to be taller and get the most of that sunlight.

Competition

V.S.

Parasitism

The mosquitoes affect humans and mammals in parts of the Daintree rainforest where the population of mosquitoes is large. This is an example of parasitism because the mosquitoses benifit by sucking blood which gives them energy and nutrients, but even thought the humans are getting biten, they stil have a negative effect of dying very slowly.

Parasitism

Disaster Graph

Before---------------Disaster--After

The Effect on another Organism

When cyclone Yasi happened I can concluded that the decomposer or the yellow footed fungus died off because there wasn't any producers, or consumers to give them energy to stay alive. The fungi would also have a very negative effect.

Effect on OTHER Organism