Why is a food web more realistic way of showing an ecosystem than a food chain?

Answer 1

With a food web, there are many different branches.

Example, in a food chain, a cat eats the rat which ate part of the dead frog, which ate a dragonfly whom dined on a blade of grass.

In a food web, on the other hand, the same cat can eat the same rat which ate part of the dead frog, etc., but it can also eat a rabbit which ate the same blade of grass. Or the cat could eat a snake which ate the frog, which had eaten a butterfly which had dined on a flower which had grown out of soil which had been fertilized by that same blade of grass when it had died and decomposed.

In a chain every part of the nourishment happens laterally, or in a straight line.

In the web, there are many more options to explain and understand the cycle of life.

The food chain is limited in it's explanations, whereas the concept and understanding of a food web is far more comprehensive and realistic.

Answer 2

because no animal is just eaten by one animal or eats one animal, besides maybe producers

Answer 3

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