Diagram salt marsh food web. The sun would need to provide more energy to power. Our mission is to provide our customers value without compromising values. When the snails feed on a type of fungus that grows on the cordgrass they scrape and damage the cordgrass. Salt marsh ecology involves complex food webs which include primary producers vascular plants macroalgae diatoms epiphytes and phytoplankton primary consumers zooplankton macrozoa molluscs insects and secondary consumers.
Andrews middle school columbia sc blythewood high school blythewood sc overview. Exploring food webs in the south carolina salt marsh author. Research and illustrate infographic and accompanying fact sheets. Kuris 91 background our mothers teach us to grill our meats well done and chew them thoroughly.
Salt marshes play a large role in the aquatic food web and the delivery of nutrients to coastal waters. Exploring the relationship between overfishing and dead zones in the chesapeake bay students analyze historic and present day food webs and graph historic and present day chesapeake bay data to learn how food web complexity is easily overlooked and why that complexity is important to healthy ecosystems. Salt marsh food webs ecosystem function. Even if mom did not know why she insisted both are good precautions against parasites.
What would most likely happen in this food web if the number of blue crabs suddenly decreased. Dedicated to setting the industry standards for excellence in safety quality consistency and service. Contact us close panel. The salt marsh is dominated by dense stands of salt tolerant plants such as grasses and shrubbery.
Parasites may be in. Salt marshes are a fascinating ecosystem where land and sea meet. This lesson explores food webs using organisms from the south carolina salt marsh. 20 salt marsh food web cards p159 161 for more participants add more cordgrass phytoplankton zooplankton and aquatic worm cards.
Website for salt marsh foods. Copy the cards cut apart and mount on poster board you can poke holes in the top and tie yarn through so that students can wear the cards supporting information about this activity tidal salt marshes such as those surrounding the san francisco bay. Call us now. Find us on the map.
The herring gull is at the top of the food web. They also support terrestrial animals and provide coastal protection. The herring gull concludes the food web of the florida salt marsh. Kimberly schneider gk 12 program department of biological sciences university of south carolina implemented.
Shaw kathleen whitney and armand m. Secondary consumers up and on from eating the sheepshead minnow is the otter. Specializing in sandwiches wraps salads and ready to eat entrees. Send us an email.
It eats the the sheepshead minnow the blue crab and the diamondback turtle. The diagram below is of a food web in a southern salt marsh. The number of fish would decrease as the snails ate more of them. Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem kevin d.