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Herbivore: An organism that consumes plants

Herbivores: Term pertaining to a heterotroph, usually an animal, that eats plants or algae. Herbivores function in food chains and food webs as primary consumers.

Tertiary Production: The production of living material per unit area (or volume) per unit time by organisms consuming the herbivores. Usually expressed as grams carbon per meter square per year

Secondary Production: The production of living material per unit area (or volume) per unit time by herbivores. Usually expressed as grams carbon per meter square per year

Trophic Level: In a food chain, a level containing organisms of identical feeding habits with respect to the chain (e.g., herbivores)

Predator: An organism that consumes another living organism (carnivores and herbivores are both predators by this definition)

Food Chain: The simplest representation of energy fiow in a community. At the base is energy stored in plants, which are eaten by small organisms, which in turn are eaten by progressively larger organis . . . View Full Definition

Primary Production: The production of living matter by photosynthesizing organisms or by chemosynthesizing organisms. Usually expressed as grams of carbon per square meter per year