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    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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    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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    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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    Ecology (section Food webs)
    to a top consumer is called the food chain. Food chains in an ecological community create a complex food web. Food webs are a type of concept map that...
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    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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    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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    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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    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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    structuring a community. A foundation species can occupy any trophic level in a food web (i.e., they can be primary producers, herbivores or predators). The term...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • of food webs. Repeated transamination by consumers results in a predictable increase in the abundance of 15N as amino acids are transferred up food chains...
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  • vents may occur where chemosynthetic sulfur bacteria form the base of the food web. A marine coastal ecosystem is a marine ecosystem which occurs where the...
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  • Seamless North America LLC (formerly SeamlessWeb) is an online food ordering service that allows users to order food for delivery and takeout from restaurants...
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    Squid (section As food)
    open water food web. The two long tentacles are used to grab prey and the eight arms to hold and control it. The beak then cuts the food into suitable...
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    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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    feed on the fungi and bacteria in a chain of life that comprises the soil food web. There are in the 21st century three main classes of manures used in soil...
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