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food web

NOUN
  1. (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains

How To Use food web In A Sentence

  • Improvement of models of anthropogenic effects on estuarine food webs requires knowledge of the ecological and biogeochemical significance of the different organic matter sources among and within estuaries.
  • This trophic reorganization is hypothesized to be an important contributor to declines in populations of seabirds and marine mammals, because lipidpoor gadids and flatfishes generally replaced lipid-rich fish species in the Gulf of Alaska food web.
  • Here, its application is intended to provide the information necessary to define maximum, allowable levels of mercury in Everglades food webs.
  • Silent Spring (1963), which consisted of a number of essays earlier published in the New Yorker magazine detailing how pesticides such as DDT, aldrin and deildrin concentrated through the food web. Environmental Ethics
  • Top predators like the wreckfishes are known as keystone species and they tend to keep populations of other species lower on the food web in proper check and also healthier, by preying on the weak and sick.
  • Some of the carbon is given off as carbon dioxide gas, but much of it remains locked up in organic molecules that help sustain the rest of the food web.
  • Increased UV-B radiation reduces the production of marine phytoplankton, which is the foundation for aquatic food webs, and a major sink for atmospheric CO2. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 8
  • The Crustaceamorpha are arguably the most well known of the arthropods because of their contributions to aquatic, aerial, and terrestrial food webs.
  • Fluctuations in the productivity of dominant plant species should also have a significant impact on complex food webs in forest ecosystems.
  • Understanding the dynamics of deep-sea food webs is essential for scientific understanding and management of earth's largest ecosystem," said Sutton, who will attend the London news conference Monday marking the end of the census. Global Census of Marine Life reveals thousands of new species, other discoveries
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