Ecosystem food web of plants

Question

Ecosystem food web of plants

Answer 1

Plants are producers in the ecosystem food web. They convert sunlight to energy, thus a main source of carbohydrate and cellulose among first consumers/herbivores.

Plants are the most abundant in ecosystems, since it takes tons to sustain the linked food chains.  

Answer 2

u cant even create a food chain without animals, then how can u think of food webs without them

Answer 3

Plants form the base of most food webs - they have the ability to create their own food from sunlight, water and various nutrients found in the ecosystem.  As other animals eat the plants or the fruits they produce the plants are partly enriched by their waste products.

Many plants have come to rely on herbivores for their survival - for example many native prairie species relied on grazing by bison to regenerate themselves or to help create conditions that were favorable for the fires to start that helped keep trees and other non prairie plants out of the ecosystem

An interesting food web in which plants are not the basis can be found along the coast of Alaska and Western Canada - salmon forms the base of this food web and without the bears catching and eating the salmon and enriching the soil with the left over fish and their droppings the soil would be so poor in nutrients that many of the tree and other plant species found there would not survive.

Answer 4

There's not much of a food web consisting of only plants.  I don' t know of any plants that eat other plants.