Module 6 : Ecology

Lecture 39 : Ecosystem (Part-II)

 

TYPES OF FOOD CHAIN: There are two different types of food chains; grazing food chain and detritus food chain.

Grazing food chain: In the grazing food chain, solar energy is entrapped by the plants and then biomass, in tuen eaten by the herbivorous, and these are subsequently been consumed by a variety of carnivorous. These are longer food and these food chains end at the decomposer level.  Here are two typical example of this type of food chain to understand this type of food chain.