Main question

What is the relationship between vegetation and animals in the Arctic tundra biome?

Questions

Draw an Arctic tundra food web from the food chains shown in Resource A.
To which levels do the plants and animals belong in the web (producers, herbivores, omnivores, primary and secondary carnivores)?

Use Resource B and your own knowledge to explain why food webs are so short in the Arctic tundra biome.

Compare the graphs in Resource C.

Explain the relationship between predators and prey in the tundra.

Resource A

Grass > musk ox > wolf

Grass/moss > reindeer > wolf

Grass/lichen > lemming > Arctic fox > wolf

Grass/lichen > lemming > Arctic fox > snow owl

Grass/lichen > lemming > snow owl

Grass/lichen > brown bear

Grass/lichen > lemming > brown bear

Lichen > Arctic hare > snow owl

Lichen > Arctic hare > brown bear
Resource B
Resource C

Numbers of predators and prey, Northern Norway.

Source - http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/17518369.2017.1323621
Rolf A. Ims, Siw T. Killengreen, Dorothee Ehrich, Øystein Flagstad, Sandra Hamel, John-André Henden, Ingrid Jensvoll & Nigel G. Yoccoz (2017) Ecosystem drivers of an Arctic fox population at the western fringe of the Eurasian Arctic, Polar Research, 36:sup1, 8, DOI: 10.1080/17518369.2017.1323621