Food Chain In Congo Rainforest

All the plants and animals in the food chain depend on each other just like links in a real chain.

Food chain in congo rainforest. There is over 12000 species. Example in the rain forest food chain to the left the arrow leads from the figs to the sloth from the sloth to the jaguar and so on. Rainforest can be found in the Congo River Basin in central Africa.

The okapi apes and mouse deer supports the secondary consumers. The worlds biggest plant-based food chain Copper Branch has partnered with Rainforest Trust amid the Amazon fires. Dominant Ecosystem of the Congo.

Many medicinal products that humans use grow only in the rainforest and scientists believe they have only studied 1 of the plants that might have medicinal use. It is important that humans start working to protect Earths rain forests. Other parts of the Congo Basin is owned by logging and mining companies.

It is home to variety of endemic animals. Chapter 2 - The Congo Rainforest. When something happens to one link it affects the entire chain.

They can either be a green plant or bacterium. These are the forest leaves. An exception is carnivorous plants on the photo below but there are very few of them in.

This ecosystem portrays an exemplary food web with crocodiles leopards and lions on the higher trophic level. Most autotrophs are plants which use light energy to photosynthesize. The Primary Consumers the okapi mouse deer monkeys chimps and apes.