Given below is a list of autotrophs and heterotrophs. With your knowledge about food chain, establish various linkages between the organisms on the principle of ‘eating and being eaten’. What is this inter-linkage established known as? Algae, hydrilla, grasshopper, rat, squirrel, crow, maize plant, deer, rabbit, lizard, wolf, snake, peacock, phytoplankton, crustaceans, whale, tiger, lion, sparrow, duck, crane, cockroach, spider, toad, fish, leopard, elephant, goat, Nymphaea, Spirogyra.

This linkage established is known as food web.
Food web is the interlocking between two or more types of food chains at different trophic levels, it results in a trophic level to serve as food for more than one organisms of same or different trophic levels.

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Given below is a list of autotrophs and heterotrophs. With your knowledge about food chain, establish various linkages between the organisms on the principle of ‘eating and being eaten’. What is this inter-linkage established known as? Algae, hydrilla, grasshopper, rat, squirrel, crow, maize plant, deer, rabbit, lizard, wolf, snake, peacock, phytoplankton, crustaceans, whale, tiger, lion, sparrow, duck, crane, cockroach, spider, toad, fish, leopard, elephant, goat, Nymphaea, Spirogyra.

This linkage established is known as food web.

Food web is the interlocking between two or more types of food chains at different trophic levels, it results in a trophic level to serve as food for more than one organisms of same or different trophic levels.

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This linkage established is known as food web.

Food web is the interlocking between two or more types of food chains at different trophic levels, it results in a trophic level to serve as food for more than one organisms of same or different trophic levels.