Food webs can be used to reveal different patterns of energy transfer in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Patterns of energy flow through different ecosystems may differ markedly in terrestrial ...

Food web interactions in lake ecosystems and disturbances affecting these interactions are one of the main topics in our research. In aquatic food webs, predation (top-down regulation) regulates the ...

and the insecticide imidacloprid can simplify food web structures, shift energy flows, and potentially destabilize aquatic ...

A benthic aquatic macroinvertebrate is a small creature that does not have a backbone and lives at the bottom of a body of ...

I nsects and spiders are important elements in the food webs of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. With declines in their biodiversity, the food supply for birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians and ...

Eutrophication is also associated with major changes in aquatic ... food quality) (Porter 1977). However, the biomass of planktivorous fish is often positively related to nutrient levels and ...