Revised terrestrial food web

Ok! So I updated the terrestrial food web. It's still not totally nailed down, but getting closer.

Here the colors indicate place on the food chain/diet

And here the colors indicate what habitat within the dome is that creature's natural habitat

Food web revision

So! After posting the food webs here, I decided to go through them again and give them a good revision. I made the original food webs quite early on in my planning process, so at this point I have a more detailed idea of what I want in many of the creatures, so I went through, made some notes, refined, and changed some of the elements of both food webs. It keeps getting more and more complicated, which might get me into trouble eventually when I have to execute all of these items. But I would rather have something complicated and more interesting than something simple but boring.

So now my food webs look like this:

I'm going to go over them and make a new version that incorporates these changes, which will be my next post.

Food webs

Here are the food web diagrams I worked out for both the terrestrial and the aquatic ecosystem of Dark Waters. There will be some overlap between the two systems, but I figured the diagrams were complicated enough to begin with. According to diagrams I found on wikipedia, the accepted notation for food webs is A ---> B means that A --is eaten by--> B, even thought that seems a bit counterintuitive.

These may be somewhat subject to revision as I proceed with the project, but the general form of the web and relationship of the creatures should stay mostly the same. The names I'm using thus far are shorthand, and some of these creatures have been further developed than others. In some cases I'm using the name of an existing animal that has some of the traits I want to bring to my creature ("clownfish" for example, will not be a clownfish, but will have developed resistance to the sting of the giant jellyfish and therefore can live among its tentacles without fear of predators). The colors relate loosely to that creature's preferred diet. Red represents the top predator, and green and turquoise respectively represent herbivores or fish that eat plankton.

Terrestrial food web

Aquatic food web