Question

Which is a weakness of traditional food webs when they are applied to complex ecological problems?

Question 12 options:

A food web does not represent all the links in an actual ecosystem.

Food webs do not account for non-native species in the environment.

The many food chains of a food web make it too complicated to use.

Trophic levels are not taken into account when creating a food web.

Answer 1

A food web does not represent all the links in an actual ecosystem.

Step-by-step explanation:

A food web is also called food cycle. It is understood by the natural interconnection of chain and their graphical representation. The concept is given by Charles Elton. He mentioned about the concept of food cycles in Animal Ecology but later this food cycle is replaced by food web.

Food web are limited representation of eco system. Ecologists can keep together all life forms broadly into one of the two categories which is called tropic levels. These two categories are autotrophs and heterotrophs