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Great Lakes Food Web Diagrams: NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory - Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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Great Lakes Food Web Diagrams
GLERL has developed food web diagrams for all of the Great Lakes and Lake St. Clair. The major species in each lake are briefly described, along with a diagram summarizing the ecosystem energy flow (who eats or is eaten by whom!). These diagrams are based on a model from a paper published in 2003 supported by both NOAA and the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Summarizing the model results in diagram form was accomplished by GLERL’s Sea Grant Extension Educator. They were updated and modified for each lake by a host of researchers.
File:Lake Erie food web.pdf - Wikimedia Commons
What is the Great Lakes food web?
In the Great Lakes, producers can be microscopic phytoplankton (plant plankton), algae, aquatic plants like Elodea, or plants like cattails that emerge from the water's surface. Herbivores, such as ducks, small fish and many species of zooplankton (animal plankton) eat plants.
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