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Coral Reef Ecosystem
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Light Blue: Producers
Light Purple: Primary consumers
Dark Blue: Secondary consumers
Red: Apex/tertiary predators
Black: Decomposers and Detrivores
Coral Reef Ecosystem
Food Web Made by Rylee Peltier
Algae
Algae is a producer in coral reefs meaning that they take sunlight and use it as resources for themself. Algae also sometimes eat fan fish, a decomposer, to get its nutrients. Algae is eaten by parrotfish and other types of fish.
Algae
Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton is a producer in the coral reef, it takes sunlight a coverts it into energy and food for itself. Phytoplankton sometimes eats fan fish, a decomposer, to get its nutrients. Phytoplankton are eaten by zooplankton and different types of fish.
Sea grass
Sea grass is a producer, it converts sunlight into food. It's mainly eaten by green sea turtle. But animals like sea urchins, small fish and crustaceans also eat sea grass.
Shrimp
Shrimp are primary consumers that eat producers for energy. They eat phytoplankton and algae. But are eaten by fish and sharks, maybe even turtles.
COT Starfish
COT (Crown Of Thorns) Starfish are primary consumers. They are herbivores and eat organisms such as coral, sponge, and algae. They are prey to titan triggerfish, sharks and even other starfishes.
Zooplankton
Zooplankton are primary consumers in a coral reef. They mainly consume phytoplankton and are prey to fish, crustaceans, and many others.
Sea urchins
Sea urchins are omnivorus/detrivorous biotic organisms. Despite the fact that they're primary consumers. They eat algae, sea grass, and dead fish or dead mussels. A sea urchin's predators are crabs, fish, eels, birds and even humans.
Triggerfish
Triggerfish are secondary consumers. They eat shrimp, crabs, snails and more. Triggerfish are prey to sharks and bigger carnivorous fish.
Spiny Lobster
Spiny Lobsters are secondary consumers in the coral reef. Their diet consists of sea urchins, clams and crabs. They are eaten by moray eels and nurse sharks.
Olive Ridley Turtle
Olive Ridley Turtles are omnivore, they have a variety of prey that include shrimp, urchins, algae, and fish. Olive Ridley Turtles predators are sharks and other big boys.
Caribbean Reef Shark
Caribbean reef sharks are the apex/tertiary predators in coral reefs, they're also carnivores. Their diet consists of fish, turtles, squid, and as you imagine plenty other species in its ecosystem.
Atlantic Spotted Dolphin
Spotted dolphins are tertiary/apex predators. They consume a lot cephalopods like squid and octopus, but also eat fish.
Bacteria & Brittle Stars
Bacteria play a big part in keeping a coral reef's health by being the main decomposer. They break down waste and dead material into nutrients for producers. Brittle stars are mainly detrivores, they eat the dead matter aside from decomposers.
Abiotic Elements
Abiotic Elements
Tempature, waves, water, sunlight, and oxygen are all abiotic elements that biotic elements need to survive. Some exapmles of the interactions between abiotic and biotic are fish(biotic) living and swimming in water(abiotic). Producers like phytoplankton using sunlight for energy or how ideal tempature keeps a coral stress-free.
Analysis
Analysis
The coral reef's ecosystem is very diverse and unique. From sunlight composed into energy for producers like plankton. Then the energy being passed on to shrimp and then to sea turtles and so on. Currently coral reefs are facing major threats from pollution and global warming, poisoning water and rising tempatures meaning coral reef stress. The coral reef is a beautiful ecosystem that is sadly endangered for extinction, that's why more people must know about coral reefs. They are important to our world.