What Are the Key Food Webs of Deep-Sea Organisms?

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The discussion revolves around the creation of food webs for deep-sea organisms, focusing on the challenges participants face in finding relevant resources and information for their assignments. The scope includes theoretical aspects of food webs, specific organisms, and their adaptations to deep-sea environments.

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Main Points Raised

  • One participant is seeking assistance in locating a specific "Food Web section" on a provided website, indicating difficulty in navigating the resource.
  • Another participant suggests using search engines with specific keywords to find food web information related to deep-sea organisms.
  • A participant lists several deep-sea fish species they included in their chart, highlighting the need for depth-specific food web information.
  • Multiple participants express frustration over the lack of available resources that detail food webs at significant depths.
  • Some participants share links to various websites that may contain useful information about marine food webs, although their relevance to the specific assignment is uncertain.

Areas of Agreement / Disagreement

Participants generally agree on the difficulty of finding suitable food web resources for deep-sea organisms, but no consensus exists on the effectiveness of the suggested links or search strategies.

Contextual Notes

Limitations include the potential inaccessibility of specific food web information for deep-sea organisms and the reliance on external resources that may not meet the assignment's requirements.

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"Exploring the Abyss"-- Food Webs of the Sea

Directions:

1. Create a chart to show five different animals found at great depths. The chart needs to include the name of the organism, characteristics, and special adaptations for surviving in that habitat.
2. Create a food web for the habitat. Be sure to label the organisms as producers (if any), such as primary consumers.

I'm on part two...

"Click this photo for more information: At this site, be sure to check out the Food Web section."

http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/ps_vents.html

I looked but I can't seem to find "the Food Web section". Could someone point it out to me if they can find it? I hope I'm not just overlooking something that's in plain view.:blushing:
 
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I'm assuming my getting no replies means that no one else can find it?:smile:
 
did you try the web? here is one of the first hits I found on the net. http://pubs.nsta.org/galapagos/activities/marine.html
 
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I tried but I couldn't seem to find a food web that went down far enough...I'm supposed to be creating a food web that's for a particular depth.

Here are the other links we were given for the other part of the assignment.

http://www.Earth'sky.org/shows/show.php?date=20030906
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/abyss/life/extremes.html
http://www.amnh.org/nationalcenter/expeditions/blacksmokers/black_smokers.html
http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2002/creatures/index.html

The chart I made included the following fish:

Gulpers (Saccopharynx lavenbergi)
Fangtooth (Anoplogaster cornuta)
Viperfish (Chauliodus sloani)
Umbrellamouth Gulper (Eurypharynx pelecanoides)
Anglerfish (Cryptopsaras couesi)
 
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One useful approach is to search using key words "food web" and "?" where you substitute either the common name, genus or genus & species for ? Be sure to use double quotes when searching for a unique string (more than one word in sequence).
 
I'll try that, I don't have anything to lose.:smile:
 
I tried, I failed... No one else can find the "Food Web section" in that other link or something else elsewhere?:frown:
 
It seems they have left the research of food webs up to you.
Here is a description of http://oceanlink.island.net/oinfo/foodweb/foodweb.html , perhaps you can determine the relationships of your organisms based on their information.
 
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