Algae / phytoplankton Plant (Producer)

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Algae / phytoplankton Plant (Producer)

• Get Energy from the sun make their own food
  through photosynthesis.
• Place in Food Web (Producer) form the basis of
  the aquatic food chain
• Mutualism provide food and shelter for
  different organisms, fish and wildlife and also
  filter sunlight limiting growth of plants on the
  bottom of lakes

Photo courtesy of http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/gre
enalgae/greenalgae.html
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Cattails / Plant (Producer)

• Get Energy from the sun make their own food
  through photosynthesis.
• Place in Food Web (Producer) form the basis of
  the aquatic food chain
• Mutualism provide food and shelter for a
  variety of organisms, fish and wildlife nursery
  habitat

Photo courtesy of www.allaboutbirds.org
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Phytoplankton / Microscopic Plants (Producers)

• Get Energy from the sun make their own food
  through photosynthesis.
• Place in Food Web (Producer) form the basis of
  the aquatic food chain.
• Mutualism Phytoplankton are the foundation of
  the aquatic food web. Plankton are vital in the
  food supplies of fish, aquatic birds, reptiles,
  amphibians and mammals and aquatic insects.

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White Water Lily / Aquatic Plant(Producer)

• Get Energy from the sun make their own food
  through photosynthesis.
• Place in Food Web (Producer) form the basis of
  the aquatic food chain
• Mutualism provide food and shelter for variety
  of organisms, fish and wildlife and also filter
  sunlight limiting growth of plants on the bottom
  of lakes. Provides excellent habitat for
  largemouth bass and sunfish seeds are eaten by
  waterfowl small aquatic animals lay their eggs
  on the leaves and stems.

Photo courtesy of white-water-lily_9574.jpg
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Milfoil / Aquatic Plant(Producer)

• Get Energy from the sun make their own food
  through photosynthesis.
• Place in Food Web (Producer) form the basis of
  the aquatic food chain
• Mutualism provide food, shelter and protection
  for variety of organisms such as, fish, frogs,
  snakes, insects, and crustaceans and also filter
  sunlight limiting growth of plants on the bottom
  of lakes.

Photo courtesy of www.allaboutbirds.org
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Common Duckweed / Aquatic Plant(Producer)

• Get Energy from the sun make their own food
  through photosynthesis.
• Place in Food Web (Producer) form the basis of
  the aquatic food chain
• Mutualism food source for many birds and fish,
  especially ducks, also provides shelter and
  protection for aquatic animals, such as frogs,
  snakes, fish, insects, and crustaceans and also
  filter sunlight limiting growth of plants on the
  bottom of lakes.

Photo courtesy of http//www.fcps.edu/islandcreeke
s/ecology/duckweed.htm
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Giant Water Bug/ Aquatic Insect Macroinvertebrate
(Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from insects, tadpoles and small fish
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for many birds, fish,
  ducks and aquatic animals

Photo courtesy of http//www.eduwebs.org/bugs/gian
t_water_bug.htm
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Water Boatmen / Aquatic Insect Macroinvertebrate
(Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from algae, decaying plant and animal
  matter
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for many birds, fish,
  ducks, aquatic animals, such as frogs, snakes and
  insects

Photo courtesy of www.allaboutbirds.org
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Freshwater Leech / Macroinvertebrate (Primary
Consumer)

• Get Energy from parasite that feeds on the blood
  of fish, frogs, turtles, and mammals.
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for many birds, fish,
  ducks, aquatic animals, such as frogs, snakes and
  insects

Photo courtesy of http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil
eSvC3B8mmende_blodigle.JPG
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Scud (Side Swimmer) / Aquatic Insect
Macroinvertebrate (Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from scuds are scavengers and feed on
  plant and animal debris.
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for many birds, fish,
  ducks, aquatic animals, such as frogs, snakes,
  fish and insects

Photo courtesy of www.allaboutbirds.org
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Zooplankton / microscopic animal-like organisms
(Primary Consumers)

• Get Energy from may be plant-eaters (eat
  phytoplankton), or meat-eaters (eat other
  zooplankton)
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for many birds, fish,
  ducks and aquatic insects

Photo courtesy of www.allaboutbirds.org
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Dobson Fly Larvae hellgrammites /
Macroinvertebrate (Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from aquatic insects, such as larvae
  of dragonflies, damselflies, stoneflies and
  mayflies
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for many birds, fish,
  ducks, aquatic animals, frogs, snakes and insects

Photo courtesy of http//life.bio.sunysb.edu/marin
ebio/fc.4.fauna.html
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Crayfish / Macroinvertebrate (Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from aquatic plants, worms, insects,
  insect larvae, and the eggs of fish, frogs, toads
  and salamanders
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for many birds, fish,
  ducks, aquatic animals, such as frogs, snakes and
  fish

Photo courtesy of http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil
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Smelt / Forage Fish (Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from Young smelt eat tiny aquatic
  organisms, but switch to aquatic insect larvae
  and other invertebrates and small fish as they
  grow
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism food source for larger fish, many
  birds, ducks, and aquatic animals and humans

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Lake Herring (Cisco) / Forage Fish (Primary
Consumer)

• Get Energy from primarily feeds on microscopic
  zooplankton adults also eat aquatic insect
  larvae, adult mayflies and stoneflies, and other
  bottom-dwelling invertebrates
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism important food source for larger
  fish, many birds, ducks, and aquatic animals and
  humans

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Mayfly Nymph / Macroinvertebrate (Primary
Consumer)

• Get Energy from plants and decaying material.
  Some filter-feed on material floating in the
  water, while others are scrapers, actively
  scraping plant material from rocks.
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism favored food for many fish (such as
  trout), also important food source for birds,
  ducks, aquatic animals, frogs, snakes and insects

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Midge Larvae (Chironomids) / Macroinvertebrate
(Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from Live on lake bottom and feed on
  Detritus (dead plant and animal material) that
  accumulated there
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) decomposer
• Mutualism Important role in break down of dead
  plants and animals, recycling nutrients
  important food source for many fish, birds,
  ducks, aquatic animals, such as frogs, snakes,
  and other macroinvertebrates.

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Canvasback / Duck (Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from (diving duck) forage in bottom
  sediment for Rootstalks, tubers and stems of
  submerged aquatic vegetation, as well as bottom
  dwelling animals, such as aquatic insects and
  small crustaceans
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) predator
  and prey
• Mutualism often builds nests in cattail eggs
  and ducklings are an important food source
  especially for mink and raccoons

Photo courtesy of http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil
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Snail (Mollusks) / macroinvertebrate (Primary
Consumer)

• Get Energy from mainly phytoplankton
  (microscopic plants), some will eat dead animal
  debris
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer)
• Mutualism important food source especially fish
  such as Lake Whitefish and other bottom feeding
  fish filter water

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Raccoon / Mammal (Secondary Consumer)

• Get Energy from omnivorous and eat almost
  anything, including nuts, berries, acorns,
  leaves, grasshoppers, crickets, grubs, worms,
  dragonfly larvae, clams, wasps, salamanders,
  frogs, crayfish, snakes, turtles and their eggs,
  bird eggs and fish etc.
• Place in Food Web (Secondary Consumer) may be
  predator or prey
• Mutualism almost always live near water, they
  will also move into a muskrat house. Predators
  include coyote, fox and bobcats.

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ge/raccoon/LISoldIt/raccoon.jpg
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Muskrat (Secondary Consumer)

• Get Energy from omnivorous wide variety of
  plants and animal foods, including cattails,
  water lilies, pondweeds, switch grass, mussels,
  crayfish, frogs, snails, and fish
• Place in Food Web (Secondary Consumer)
• Mutualism build lodges out of cattails and
  grasses food source for red-tailed hawk, mink,
  owl, bald eagle, fox, coyote and raccoon

Photo courtesy of http//www.fcps.edu/islandcreeke
s/ecology/muskrat.htm
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Bufflehead / Duck (Primary Consumer)

• Get Energy from a diving duck aquatic
  vegetation, insects, crustaceans and mollusks as
  well as some seeds
• Place in Food Web (Primary Consumer) predator
  and prey
• Mutualism eggs and ducklings are an important
  food source especially for mink and raccoons
  large fish

Photo courtesy of www.allaboutbirds.org
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Great Blue Heron (Tertiary / Top Predator)

• Get Energy from Fish, amphibians, reptiles,
  mice, insects and small birds
• Place in Food Web
• (Tertiary / Top Predator)
• Mutualism predator Great horned owl

Photo courtesy of www.allaboutbirds.org
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Lake Trout / Fish Eaters (Piscivores) (Tertiary
/ Top predator)

• Get Energy from Primarily other fish sometimes
  takes crustaceans, insects, other fish, and even
  small mammals
• Place in Food Web (Tertiary /Top Predator)
• Mutualism Food source for People, Hawks,
  Herons eggs and fry are important food source
  for ducks, mammals, other fish

Photo courtesy of http//www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,16
07,7-153-10364_18958-45685--,00.html
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Northern Pike / Fish Eaters (Piscivores)
(Tertiary / Top predator)

• Get Energy from Primarily large numbers of
  smaller fish will supplement their diet with any
  living creature they can swallow, including
  frogs, crayfish, waterfowl, rodents, and other
  small mammals
• Place in Food Web Tertiary / Top Predator
• Mutualism Food source for mammals, hawks,
  herons etc eggs and fry are important food
  source for ducks, mammals, other fish

Photo courtesy of http//www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,16
07,7-153-10364_18958-45685--,00.html
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Steelhead Trout / Forage Fish (Secondary
Consumer)

• Get Energy from plankton, minnows, surface and
  bottom insects and other aquatic life larger
  rainbows will eat other small fish if available.
• Place in Food Web Secondary consumers may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism Food source for mammals, hawks,
  herons etc eggs and fry are important food
  source for ducks, mammals and other fish

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Chinook Salmon / Fish Eater Forage Fish
(Tertiary / Top Predator and Secondary Consumer)

• Get Energy from Young Chinook in rivers eat
  insects, insect larvae and crustaceans adults in
  the lakes eat fish almost exclusively. In the
  Great Lakes, smelt and alewives make up their
  main diet.
• Place in Food Web Secondary Consumers (juvenile)
  may be predator and preyTertiary / Top Predator
  (adult)
• Mutualism Important predator of invasive
  alewife. Important food source for larger fish,
  humans, ducks herons and mammals.

Photo courtesy of http//www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,16
07,7-153-10364_18958-45663--,00.html
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Walleye / Fish Eater (Piscivores)(Tertiary / Top
predator)

• Get Energy from Carnivorous night feeders,
  eating fishes such as yellow perch and freshwater
  drum, small bass, trout, pike, perch and
  sunfishes insects, crayfish, snails and
  mudpuppies.
• Place in Food Web Secondary Consumers (juvenile)
  may be predator and preyTertiary / Top Predator
  (adult)
• Mutualism Important predator and food source for
  larger fish, humans, ducks herons and mammals

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Lake Sturgeon / Forage Fish(Secondary Consumers)

• Get Energy from macro invertebrates such as
  insect larvae, crayfish, snails, clams, and
  leeches small animals including snails,
  crustaceans, aquatic insects, mussels and small
  fish.
• Place in Food Web (Secondary Consumers) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism traditionally important food source
  for humans though today threatened species
  important consumer of macro invertebrates

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Bald Eagle (Tertiary / Top Predator)

• Get Energy from 90 of diet consists of fish
• Place in Food Web
• (Tertiary / Top Predator)
• Mutualism important predator

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Northern Water Snake / Reptile(Secondary
Consumer)

• Get Energy from small fish, frogs, worms,
  leeches, crayfish, salamanders, young turtles,
  and small birds and mammals.
• Place in Food Web
• (Secondary Consumer) both predator and prey
• Mutualism important food source for hawks etc.
  and mammals

Photo courtesy of http//www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,16
07,7-153-10370_12145_12201-61196--,00.html
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Bull Frog / Amphibian(Secondary Consumer)

• Get Energy From any animal they can swallow.
  These include insects, crayfish, worms, minnows,
  frogs, small turtles, snakes, baby birds and
  small mammals.
• Place In Food Web (Secondary Consumer) may be
  predator and prey
• Mutualism Important food source for other
  amphibians, reptiles, fish, mammals important
  predator of insects utilize aquatic plants for
  shelter and breeding

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Painted Turtle

• Food aquatic plants, earthworms, insects,
  leeches, snails, crayfish, tadpoles, frogs, fish,
  and. dead animal matter (carrion).
• Habitat marshes, lakes, ponds, rivers, and
  slow-moving streams. They prefer water with lots
  of plants, and logs they can climb out on.

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Snapper Turtle

• Food eat almost any small animal they can catch
  (insects, crayfish, tadpoles, etc.), as well as
  carrion and aquatic plants
• Habitat Ponds, marshes, lakes, streams, slow
  rivers and other water habitats.