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How do we link ecosystem services, environmental management and grazing managment systems, so that we holistically and sustainably manage Jingei at both the landscape and the property scale in tandem.
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The Jingeri Food web
By Tracy andSine Finnegan.
What makes up a food web?
A food web is made up of lots of food chains
They consist of Producers, Consumers and decomposers
They have large amounts of herbivores and carnivores
The producer: sun or energy is converted into living plants
The consumer: bird or koala, dingo or eagle
the decomposer: fungi and soil animals
Together all these are linked to create ecosystems
What parts of a food web make up
the Jingeri Ecosystem?
Primary producers
Energy from the sun
Energy stored in the plant and some escapes (heat)
Nutrients in the soil
Consumers
Herbivores Carnivores
Decomposers:Natures recyclers
minerals Manure/compost/dead things
Fungi:• Yeasts• Molds• Mushrooms
Soil animals:• worms• dung beetles• centipedes
Soils in which the primary producers grow
How does all that fit together???
Producers
Consumers Decomposer
s
What special ecosystems do we
have at Jingeri?
Glossy Black Cockatoo
Open Woodland/she-oak ecosystems
Allocasuarina = She-oak• Open grassy woodland• Mixed Eucalypts• Nests in large hollows in old trees• Glossy Blacks will only eat the cones
from the she-oaks• The cones are called “orts”• Under threat because of land clearing
of its food & habitat trees
Long Nosed Potoroo
Open Woodland Ecosystems• Open grassy eucalypt forests• With a diversity of native grass
species• Eats fungi, seeds and insects • Fungi is very important part of
their diet• Fungi essential to make healthy
soils• As a decomposer it is responsible
for Nutrient cycling into soils and plants
• Helps make the nutrients trapped inside dead plants and animals available for the plants and animals to use for energy.
• Under threat by predation from dogs, cats and foxes.
• Known to live in the same ecosystem as the Hastings River Mouse and the Eastern Bristle Bird.
Hastings River Mouse
Eastern Bristle Bird
KoalaEucalypt forest Ecosystems
• Eats only eucalyptus leaves from 19 out of 600 species of eucalypt trees.
• Relies on healthy ground cover between food and habitat trees to move safely on the ground.
• Threatened by habitat loss and predation from dogs and foxes.
• Suffers from a disease called Chlamydia which occurs in stressed animals.
• Koalas are becoming more and more threatened in SEQ because of humans
Fungi & Soil
animals: Nutrient &
carbon cycling
Soils
Plants:Water & carbon
cycling
Herbivores:
Consumers
Carnivores:
Predators Suns energ
y
Everything in an ecosystem is connected to everything
else:They are “interconnected”
What have we learned?• Everything in a foodweb is connected
• Lots of different foodwebs make up an Ecosystem
• Healthy soils are vital to make sure energy and nutrients are available plants
Food Chain
Food Web
Ecosystem
Thank you for listening
What kinds of ecosystems or
foodwebs are there in your back yard?