Most animals don't just eat one thing. In any ecosystem there are lots of food chains that all link together. This is called a food web. A food web is all the food chains that make up an ecosystem ...

The remaining trophic levels include carnivores that consume animals at trophic levels ... in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems (Shurin et al. 2006). Food webs (i.e., energy flow webs) can ...

New research reveals that methane, typically associated with deep-sea ecosystems, plays a significant role in river food webs ...

For decades, parasites were omitted from the study of food web ecology based on the assumption that they contributed negligible biomass to ecosystems. Measuring biomass, or productivity ...

Integrating these two flows -- information with traditional material linkages like food webs -- alters the understanding of how disturbances spread within ecosystems (perturbation propagation ...

While an abundance of parasites might seem like a bad thing, their absence actually signals trouble in the environment.

Most animals don't just eat one thing. In any ecosystem there are lots of food chains that all link together. This is called a food web. A food web is all the food chains that make up an ecosystem ...

Parasites are crucial indicators of ecosystem health, and their absence can signal trouble. Once pristine, Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) now faces pollution and algal blooms that have damaged ...