Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a community, revealing species interactions and community structure, and understanding the ...

In 1969, a team of researchers took a patch of forest in central New Hampshire and mapped the territories of the songbirds ...

A tangled food web Trophic levels are an 'insufficient' measure of sustainability for today's aquaculture policy Date: February 25, 2021 Source: University of California - Santa Barbara Summary ...

Lutjanus kasmira fed almost exclusively within a food web based on water column phytoplankton. L. ehrenbergii was tied to a macroalgae-based food web on the seafloor.

The food webs produced are amongst the largest published - reflecting detailed taxonomy across fish, algae and macro-invertebrates. All food-web attributes - species richness, number of links, ...

Born in food web ecology, the concept of trophic levels -- the hierarchy of who eats who in the natural world -- is an elegant way to understand how biomass and energy move through a natural ...

Erin S. Dunlop, Daisuke Goto, Donald A. Jackson. Fishing down then up the food web of an invaded lake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019; 201908272 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1908272116 ...

Kelp forest collapse alters food web and energy dynamics in the Gulf of Maine Peer-Reviewed Publication Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ...

Seasonal variation in aquatic food web structure at Mad Island Marsh, Matagorda Bay, Texas, was examined using dietary information obtained from the analysis of gut contents from large samples of fish ...

Overall, the results show that a neglected part of the peatlands’ microbial food web is sensitive to climate change too, and in ways that “are currently not accounted for in models that predict future ...