Animals In The Desert Ecosystem

The desert habitat is home to a range of animals and plants that have actually adapted to make it through in extreme dry conditions.

Animals in the desert ecosystem. A desert is an ecosystem that is very dry and that gets hardly any rain. It then moves on to some other important aspects of desert plantanimal interactions with a focus on pollination and seed dispersal. It consists of Insects such as Anopheles mosquito Caterpillar Scorpions Spiders Lice Ants Butterflies Moths and Roaches.

In a nutshell Desert ecosystem can be explained as the interactions of different organism cohabiting together the climate present there and any other non-living components if present there. Animals like burrowers and kangaroo rats make up the dominant residents. The plants and animals of the desert ecosystem have mastered the art of survival in harsh conditions.

Conservation efforts are however underway to save them from going extinct. The camel is another desert animal. Some of the deserts scavengers are capable of capturing their own prey but as food can be scarce in the desert they are always looking to scavenge an easy meal.

Thus most of the animals in desert ecosystem rely on their behavioural physiological and structural adaptations to avoid the desert. In areas with a greater water supply the level of biodiversity increases as vegetation such as shrubs cacti and hardy trees form the foundation of a more extensive food web. Below is a list of animals that live in the desert with links to additional information on each animal.

Animals in the Desert Biome. A desert ecosystem is basically devoid of any rainfall or precipitation. Desert animals include coyotes and bobcats spiders such as the black widow scorpions rattlesnakes lizards and many kinds of birds all especially adapted to the desert biome.

The camel has humps that store fat and water so that the camel will not get dehydrated or run out of energy. How these animals and organisms live and thrive off of each other is commonly referred to as the food chain. Of the various forms of pollination the chapter will explore the yucca moth-yucca and senita moth-senita cactus mutualisms.