Food Chain & Food Web
Producer Primary Consumer Secondary Consumer
Energy and Fluctuations
The source of the energy in the food web is the sun and the primary producer, the trees, absorb the sun through photosynthesis and use it as energy. The moose then eat parts of the tree and the wolf or the lynx eat the moose. Anything left of the moose or the tree are eaten by decomposers or scavengers. If a number of a certain species fluctuated it would mess the entire food web up. For example if the amount of trees in the food web went down then some of the moose would starve. Then when some of the moose starve the wolves and the lynxes have nothing to eat and starve as well. Some possible factors that may limit the growth of a certain population could be natural disasters, disease, pollution, and invasive species
Invasive Species
One of the invasive species in the Taiga is the coyote. Coyotes eat rodents and sometimes small deer and elk. The coyotes were introduced to the Taiga by being forced out of their original habitat which was the prairies and desert areas of Mexico and central North America. The coyotes were pushed in all directions and now live pretty much everywhere on the continent. In the Taiga the coyotes eat certain things that wolves or lynxes hunt. Now there are to many things hunting those animals and the numbers will drop. Now its going to be harder for the carnivores to find food and they could starve.