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CONSOMMATEUR PREMIER ORDRE [3 records]

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Record 1 2011-04-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
  • Ecosystems
DEF

[An animal] in the food chain that consumes herbivores, i.e. carnivores.

CONT

Herbage is said to belong to the class known as producers, which transform solar energy and carbon dioxide into sugars via photosynthesis. The remaining links are consumers. Consumers are ordered first, second, and so on. Thus a three-stage food chain would be grass consumed by cattle consumed by man, i.e. producer, first-order consumer, second-order consumer.

OBS

A carnivore is a second-order consumer.

OBS

Compare with "carnivore".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
  • Écosystèmes
DEF

Organisme qui se nourrit de consommateurs primaires.

CONT

La biocénose a une organisation définie en niveaux trophiques; les plantes vertes y sont les producteurs autotrophes, les animaux, les consommateurs hétérotrophes, que l'on peut classer en consommateur de premier ordre(carnivores, phytophoges), de second ordre(carnivores mangeant des herbivores), de troisième ordre(carnivores mangeant des carnivores), etc [...]; il se forme ainsi des chaînes trophiques, où le problème est de savoir qui mange qui [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
  • Ecosistemas
DEF

Organismo heterótrofo que se alimenta de consumidores primarios.

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Record 2 2003-11-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ecology (General)
DEF

primary consumers: Animals that consume plants.

CONT

You will be able to identify organisms found in the Antarctic as producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, and scavengers. This will allow you to become aware of the roles these organisms play in the Antarctic community.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Écologie (Généralités)
CONT

Les consommateurs primaires [sont les] animaux herbivores et détritivores [ainsi que les] végétaux hétérotrophes.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
DEF

Organismo animal que se nutre de vegetales.

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Record 3 2002-01-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Environmental Economics
  • Ecology (General)
OBS

Ordinarily the plant-eaters.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économie environnementale
  • Écologie (Généralités)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía del medio ambiente
  • Ecología (Generalidades)
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