Food Chain Diagram - Coursework Example

Everglades’ Ecosystem Food Chain The food chain diagrams will focus on the Everglades ecosystem and the energyflow through the food web and pyramids. The food chain will classifies organism in the ecosystem into producers, consumers and decomposers. The diagram 1 indicates a food web, which states the interdependent nature within the ecosystem. The major organisms living in the ecosystem are indicated in table1Tertiary consumerSecondary consumersPrimary consumersProducers Alligators Blue heronturtleAlgaePanthers RaccoonApple snailGrasssnailDeer LilyfishTable 1The focus will be n the adaptation of two organism which is the Lily and panther.

According to Ritchie (2012) the water lily have submerging leaves with adult plants folding their leaves, they both increase the surface area in which the plants is exposed to sunlight. This feature enhances photosynthesis. The panther on the other hand has tough claws and jaws, which enhances their hunting skills. In an event, there occurs water pollution in a form of oil spill, the producers, which is the lily, will be affected directly since oil will reduce the lily leaves exposure to light and hence reduced rate of photosynthesis.

A reduced rate of photosynthesis will reduce the population of the lily in the waters (Simon et al, 2013). The deer will experience a food shortage and hence reduced population in the ecosystem due to migration and death for those who fail to adapt. The panthers and the opossum will also reduce in number. This leads to the distraction of the organism natural habitat. The consumers may move due to the fear of human activities as results the number of producers overcrowding, thus showing short-term effect.

As they, increase the competition for nutrients available resulting to the death of the weak species hence creating imbalance in the ecosystem. ImageImage 1The energy pyramid indicates decreasing levels of energy up the hierarchy. The producers indicate a higher level of energy as compared tertiary consumers. Energy transfer from producers to consumers takes place interdependently (Simon et al, 2013). The producers sources its energy form the sun and transfers to consumers (Ecosystem Assessment Project, 2000).

Primary consumers are herbivorous and the secondary and tertiary producers being carnivorous.Image 2ReferenceEcosystem Assessment Project. (2000). “Change in the Everglades Ecosystem” retrieved from Ritchie, R. (2012). Photosynthesis in the Blue Water Lily (Nymphaea caerulea Saligny) Using Pulse Amplitude Modulation Fluorometry. International Journal of Plant Sciences, 173. 2 , pp124-136Simon, E. J., Dickey, J. L., & Reece, J. B. (2013). Campbell essential biology with physiology (4th ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson.