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 webs are detailed maps of who eats whom, and therefore how big an effect a change in one species has on the other species in the community. Humans have profound effects on the structure and ...

Lake ecosystems can receive high inputs of terrestrial organic matter (t-OM) that microbes make available to higher trophic ...

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 ...

By Seth Millstein for Sentient Climate. Broadcast version by Isobel Charle for Washington News Service reporting for the ...

Often conjuring images of dank, smelly, mosquito-infested wastelands, upon closer look, wetlands are actually biologically diverse and productive ecosystems ... complex food webs that not only ...