PROCESS DIAGRAM
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Pitch pine
White oak
Barred owl
Gray squirrel
Eastern chipmunk
Eastern cottontail
Red fox
White-tailed deer
Red-tailed hawk
Eastern bluebird
Red-winged
blackbird
Blackberry
American robin
Red-bellied
woodpecker
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Bacteria
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Moths
Deer mouse
Spiders
Insect larvae
Fungi
Insects
This food web is greatly simplified compared to what actually happens in nature. Many
species aren’t included, and numerous links in the web aren’t shown.
Compare and explain the very different
locations of decomposers and producers.
Think Critically
Food web at the edge of an eastern U.S. deciduous forest
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