Animals In The Desert Food Chain

As you can see there are many species of animals in the desert that eat each other.

Animals in the desert food chain. Are part of the iguana family. This is an example of a food chain in the desert. Sixth graders examine the prairie food chain while designing a rescue strategy for an endangered species.

The coyotes natural predator was at one time the wolf. The hawk is like many other large predators in the desert such as a kit foxes falcons and vultures. Food chains and food webs in the Mojave Desert are similar.

The producers are the plants cactus Creosote Bushed Thorn Acacras and many others. These animals are fewer in numbers than the herbivores as one secondary consumer consumes many herbivores for survival. Man is the top predator in any desert environment whether by intention or accident.

The availability and timeliness of moisture the intensity of seasonal temperatures and the organic richness of the soil. If a hawk eats the frog it becomes prey. A stream reef side of a pool field and woodland are all instances of an ecosystem.

In the Mojave the desert kit fox is one of the secondary consumers that feeds on cottontail. The food web works in a strange way in the Outback. Give an example of a plant and an animal that each one might eat.

The wolf has been extirpated from the Mojave Desert by man however man and his motor vehicles have taken the place of the wolf as the primary killer of coyotes. Again we see cold-blooded animals such as snakes insect-eating lizards and tarantualas. The food chain below shows this very food chain that was described above.