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  • Thumbnail for Trophic level
    Look up trophic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. Within a food web, a food...
    26 KB (3,071 words) - 04:20, 22 May 2024
  • links between a trophic consumer and the base of the chain. Food chain studies play an important role in many biological studies. Food chain stability is...
    18 KB (2,039 words) - 08:15, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Apex predator
    predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own. Apex predators are usually defined in terms of trophic dynamics, meaning that they...
    33 KB (3,264 words) - 11:45, 26 July 2024
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    Food web (redirect from Trophic dynamics)
    called trophic links. The number of trophic links per consumer is a measure of food web connectance. Food chains are nested within the trophic links of...
    83 KB (8,689 words) - 12:42, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ecological pyramid
    bioproductivity at each trophic level in an ecosystem. A pyramid of energy shows how much energy is retained in the form of new biomass from each trophic level, while...
    9 KB (1,004 words) - 05:17, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Energy flow (ecology)
    food chain. Each of the levels within the food chain is a trophic level. In order to more efficiently show the quantity of organisms at each trophic level...
    31 KB (3,540 words) - 09:27, 13 July 2024
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    In practice, trophic levels are not usually simple integers because the same consumer species often feeds across more than one trophic level. For example...
    158 KB (16,548 words) - 02:36, 22 June 2024
  • Trophic cascades are powerful indirect interactions that can control entire ecosystems, occurring when a trophic level in a food web is suppressed. For...
    36 KB (4,388 words) - 12:54, 6 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Agriculture
    absorb and concentrate contaminants capable of being passed up the trophic chain. Agricultural economics is economics as it relates to the "production...
    181 KB (17,615 words) - 19:17, 4 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Giant oceanic manta ray
    introduced to the marine environment via pollution and can travel up the trophic chain. For example, there was a study in Ghana that involved the testing of...
    28 KB (3,222 words) - 16:10, 3 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Biomagnification
    biomagnification occurs across trophic (food chain) levels. Biodilution is also a process that occurs to all trophic levels in an aquatic environment;...
    11 KB (1,280 words) - 19:26, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barred owl
    (Aegolius acadius) and long-eared owl (Asio otus). The interspecific owl trophic chain was perhaps most conspicuous in a case where a barred owl that was shot...
    175 KB (22,181 words) - 11:24, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture
    transfer. "Multi-trophic" means that the various species occupy different trophic levels, i.e., different (but adjacent) links in the food chain. IMTA is a...
    33 KB (3,768 words) - 19:43, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fishing down the food web
    trophic levels. The trophic level of a fish is the position it occupies on the food chain. The article establishes the importance of the mean trophic...
    25 KB (2,734 words) - 16:29, 26 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Paracas National Reserve
    and a large number of invertebrates that are an initial part of the trophic chain of this important place. Mammals found in the reserve include: the sei...
    8 KB (679 words) - 21:37, 25 January 2024
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    J (2008-01-22). "First direct evidence of a vertebrate three-level trophic chain in the fossil record". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological...
    114 KB (11,778 words) - 04:28, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Choanoflagellate
    link otherwise inaccessible forms of carbon to organisms higher in the trophic chain. Even today, they are important in the carbon cycle and microbial food...
    41 KB (4,079 words) - 21:38, 4 August 2024
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    Heidtke, U. H. (2007). "First direct evidence of a vertebrate three-level trophic chain in the fossil record". Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 275 (1631):...
    6 KB (503 words) - 10:01, 11 July 2024
  • ecosystem and affect the air quality and water. Food web Primary producers Trophic level Grewal, Wakin, Science, Mandeep, Suzanne, Plant (2017). Human Biology...
    5 KB (597 words) - 12:11, 30 July 2024
  • (2008). "The Ordovician Biodiversification: revolution in the oceanic trophic chain". Lethaia. 41 (2): 99–109. Bibcode:2008Letha..41...99S. doi:10.1111/j...
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