Talk:Food web

Can anyone add some links to food web resources on the web?

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I'm not sure it is an improvement to simply remove the food chain example, particularly since the article expands on that simplistic concept to describe food webs. Although perhaps not realistic in terms of what happens in nature, food chains are still used extensively to show relationships of animals and plants. - Marshman 19:05, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

food chain members

As a secondary school student, i found it hard to research on food chain members, such as the producer, consumer, decomposers and scavenger. I found the topic 'food chains' played little help in my research. Please add this information, so future researchers such as myself can make references to this page. Thank you.

Food cycles

In the article, you read this about food chains:

They usually start with a primary producer and end with a top predator.

This is a common mistake today.

Even the primary producer must get carbon and nitrogen somewhere, and even the top predator contributes to the cycle start by excrements and by own body when dies...

The plancton probably reuses the biological wastes, flushed by water from continents, and/or airy carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Carbon dioxide is produced by all upper parts of the cycle, making a short-path to the beginning... The same is for plants and animal excrements, that naturally get rotten and re-supply the food chain, through ground bacteries, to new plants...

The plants use nitrogen/carbon output from bacteries, airy carbon dioxide, water (humidity), solar energy and produces biomass (celulose, sacharides, proteines...) Most rest of solar energy, that is not converted this way to biomass, is re-radiated as a heat...

Then it continues into upper levels, as described in the article, but all upper levels make some feedback into the starting levels (excrements, bodies, breath...).

We should call it the Food cycles instead .

The "matter" is (probably?) not created anywhere on the earth, all matter circulates...

May 05 2006, Semi

If food chain refers to the depiction of the community, rather than the reality of the community, then it is certainly correct to say that most food chains begin with producers and end with top predators. That is how they are drawn. You are certainly correct that this is an inaccurate depiction of reality, which is why many (most?) ecologists have shifted to thinking in terms of food webs. It may nonetheless be useful to describe food chains as they are generally depicted, and then to point out the shortcomings. Justinleif 18:33, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Food Chain

Does any person know when the term 'food chain' begain to originate? Who first began to use the term 'food chain' and when did the term 'food chain' become widely recognised?

Returned Article to Previous State

It appears that about 2 weeks ago something happened and the article is now much lower on content. I have dug the old version out of the archives and replaced it. Much of the content is unchanged but it is added to. Cimex 16:37, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Anecdotes should be deleted

Neither of the anecdotes included in this article have anything to do with food webs. I would vote to delete both of them. Justinleif 01:53, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I vote to delete them both too. The anecdotes seem to do nothing to supplement the article information and only confuse the reader as to what a "food chain" actually is. Cariosus 20:09, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

I haven't heard any opposition to deleting them, so I went ahead and did so. Justinleif 18:26, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Platypus?

I don't understand what the picture of the coin with a platypus has to do with food chains. Justinleif 21:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Example of food web

I want example of "FOOD WEB" and not "FOOD CHAIN". Please help . Anishgirdhar 14:19, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

           Thank you