2008). Figure 1 shows a simplified food web in a desert ecosystem. In this food web, grasshoppers feed on plants; scorpions prey on grasshoppers; kit foxes prey on scorpions. While the food web ...

Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating ... and understanding the dynamics of energy transfer in an ecosystem.

Explores how plants and animals survive in one of Earth's harshest environments—deserts, where annual rainfall is less than ...