What role do animals play in biocenosis?

usually, animals in the biocenosis play the role of consumers (1,2 or 3 orders). birds and mammals of forests play an important role in the establishment and development of forest biocenosis. this role is mainly manifested in the line of food connections. warm-blooded animals destroy many fruits and seeds of woody, shrub and herbaceous plants. which at the same time contributes to the spread, they eat the vegetative parts of plants (buds, leaves, needles, bark shoots) feed on all kinds of insects and so on, both without vertebrates and invertebrates. harmful and useful.