A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Position in the...
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The soil food web is the community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil. It describes a complex living system in the soil and how...
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A marine food web is a food web of marine life. At the base of the ocean food web are single-celled algae and other plant-like organisms known as phytoplankton...
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A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically...
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The microbial food web refers to the combined trophic interactions among microbes in aquatic environments. These microbes include viruses, bacteria, algae...
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condiments, beverages, foods for nutritional uses, food additives, composite dishes and savoury snacks. In a given ecosystem, food forms a web of interlocking...
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Fishing down the food web is the process whereby fisheries in a given ecosystem, "having depleted the large predatory fish on top of the food web, turn to increasingly...
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as habitat modification and mutualisms can be important determinants of food web structures. However, it remains unclear whether these findings generalize...
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Trophic level (category Food chains)
trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. Within a food web, a food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms...
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flow of energy and the successive loss of energy as it travels up the food web are patterns in energy flow that are governed by thermodynamics, which...
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Forage fish (section Ocean food webs)
positions in the ocean food webs. The position that a fish occupies in a food web is called its trophic level (Greek trophē = food). The organisms it eats...
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River ecosystem (section Food web complexity)
prevalent in terrestrial food webs than aquatic food webs. A food chain is a linear system of links that is part of a food web, and represents the order...
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Zooplankton (section Role in food webs)
consumption and processing of phytoplankton and other food sources, zooplankton play a role in aquatic food webs, as a resource for consumers on higher trophic...
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Soil ecology (section Soil food web)
that much below ground diversity is ecologically redundant and that soil food webs exhibit a higher degree of omnivory. However, evidence is accumulating...
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Plankton (section Food chain)
the base of the marine food web, providing food for all the trophic levels above. Recent studies have analyzed the marine food web to see if the system...
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difficult to place in food webs: a trematode with multiple hosts for its various life cycle stages would occupy many positions in a food web simultaneously,...
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Retrieved 9 February 2012. "Food Chains". Archived from the original on 2009-10-07. Retrieved 2009-09-03. "Food chains and food webs | WWF". wwf.panda.org....
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The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to...
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example of fishing down the food web. Although there may be toxic residues present in Antarctic krill and fish, the United States Food and Drug Administration...
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Sylvain Bonhommeau and colleagues argued in 2013 that across the global food web, a fractional human trophic level (HTL) can be calculated as the mean trophic...
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(feeding) positions in a food web or food chain. Trophic species have identical prey and a shared set of predators in the food web. This means that members...
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role of primary producers as the foundation of the marine food web, polynyas are a critical food source for a variety of organisms such as fish, birds, and...
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and the Food Summit, a two-day showcase of gourmet Irish Food. Irish Prime Minister, Enda Kenny, also opened the NASDAQ Market from the Web Summit, the...
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climate variations. Phytoplankton form the base of marine and freshwater food webs and are key players in the global carbon cycle. They account for about...
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important is because it plays a prominent role when interwoven with other food webs. Most of the solar energy reaching the Earth is in the range of visible...
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A web series (also known as webseries, short-form series, and web show) is a series of short scripted or non-scripted online videos, generally in episodic...
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Ecology of the San Francisco Estuary (redirect from Food Web Dynamics of the Low Salinity Zone of the San Francisco Estuary)
of non-native species. New species have altered the architecture of the food web as surely as levees have altered the landscape of islands and channels...
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The American gizzard shad is important to the food web in America due to being a source of game fish food. They also have a long history of stock introductions...
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what they eat into body mass. They are an important food source for predators and part of the food web dynamics of many of the world's ecosystems. The skin...
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