What Trophic Level Is Algae
  • Level 1: Plants (producers)
  • Level 2: Animals that eat plants or herbivores (primary consumers)
  • Level 3: Animals that eat herbivores (secondary consumers, carnivores)
  • Level 4: Animals that eat carnivores (tertiary consumers, carnivores)

What trophic level is a blue crab?

Mean blue crab trophic position was 2.59 ± 0.38 (between primary and secondary consumers), reflecting the omnivorous diet characterized by earlier studies using stomach contents analysis.

Is zooplankton a producer?

Phytoplankton are the tiny, plant-like producers of the plankton community. … Zooplankton are the animal-like primary consumers of plankton communities. In turn, zooplankton then become food for larger, secondary consumers such as fish.

Alexander Ross

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