Autotrophs are the producers in the food chain, meaning they create their own nutrients and energy. Kelp, like most autotrophs, creates energy through a process called photosynthesis. An autotroph is an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
Describe the relationship between producers and autotrophs?
Producers could be simply called autotrophs while autotrophs could also be simply called producers. Autotrophs produces food on their own just like producers as well that produces on their own, they are both dependent by others in the food chain or trophic level