Who is the top consumer in the forest ecosystem?

Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers in the Forest Community. By Taylor Seigler. A: Producers: Photosynthesizing organisms. Producers are any kind of green plant. Green plants make their food by taking sunlight and using the energy to make sugar. The plant uses this sugar, also called glucose to make many things, such as wood, leaves, roots, and bark. read more

In this sense, the second order consumer is a tertiary producer (e.g., foxes converting rabbits into more foxes). This continues along the food chain. So - the producers in a forest system are the plants (primary producers), herbivores (secondary producers), first-order carnivores (tertiary producers), and top carnivores (terminal producers). read more