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Transferring of Energy between Trophic Levels
Food web of Lake Ontario
This food web shows the interactions between organisms across trophic levels in the Lake Ontario ecosystem. Primary producers are outlined in green, primary consumers in orange, secondary consumers in blue, and tertiary (apex) consumers in purple. Arrows point from an organism that is consumed to the organism that consumes it. Notice how some lines point to more than one trophic level. For example, the opossum shrimp eats both primary producers and primary consumers.
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"OpenStax College, Ecology of Ecosystems. December 10, 2013."
http://cnx.org/content/m44885/latest/#fig-ch46_01_05
OpenStax CNX
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