Food Chain In The Atlantic Ocean

This shows that biomagnification in some cases depends on body size and not trophic position.

Food chain in the atlantic ocean. As the climate continues to change we are learning more about those limits. Since the early 1980s ocean phytoplankton concentrations that drive the marine food chain have declined substantially in many areas of open water in Northern oceans according to a comparison of. In my Ocean Awareness contest piece I drew an Atlantic sea creature food chain.

Top ocean predators include large sharks billfish dolphins toothed whales and large seals. The food chain begins with the tiniest microorganisms who are the major producers of food in the ocean and are in turn consumed by bigger lives which are eventually preyed by the largest marine lives such as whales and sharks. The oceanic feeding grounds of the Atlantic salmon are in the northern sector of the Ocean.

An ocean food chain shows how energy is passed from one organism living thing to another in the ocean. They are eaten by primary consumers like zooplankton small fish and crustaceans. I got my inspiration from my art teacher mentioning species diversity which I automatically related to the food chain.

In the ocean there are the producers which consist of algae duckweed euglena etc. It covers approximately 20 percent of the earths surface and about 29 percent of its water surface area. While the ocean seems vast and unending it is in fact finite.

Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. The next level of the marine food chain is made up of animals that feast on the seas abundant plant life. The food chains weak link.

In the food chain its show the feeding relation to consumer. Food webs describe who eats whom in an ecological community. A food chain is a linear 1-directional diagram of the feeding relationships between organisms in an area.