food web, definition of

The complex inter meshing of individual food chains in an ecosystem.

• Claim: Climate change lowers nutrition, increases toxicity at base of food web
  HANOVER, N.H. – October 25, 2021 – Climate change impacts on freshwater systems can lower nutrition and increase toxicity at the base of the food web, according to research from Dartmouth College and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
• Scientists find surprising methane-based ecosystem in underwater Yucatan caves
  Underwater caves have been described as one of Earth's final unexplored frontiers. An international team recently delved into the flooded caves of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and found methane and dissolved organic carbon sustain the food web in these...
• The oceans face a scary new threat: plastic-filled plankton poop
  The harmful effects of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans are well documented, but there’s a new angle to the risks that is just now getting attention...

Related Tags: food, ecosystem

A food web is a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.

• Claim: Climate change lowers nutrition, increases toxicity at base of food web
  HANOVER, N.H. – October 25, 2021 – Climate change impacts on freshwater systems can lower nutrition and increase toxicity at the base of the food web, according to research from Dartmouth College and the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences.
• Scientists find surprising methane-based ecosystem in underwater Yucatan caves
  Underwater caves have been described as one of Earth's final unexplored frontiers. An international team recently delved into the flooded caves of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico and found methane and dissolved organic carbon sustain the food web in these...
• The oceans face a scary new threat: plastic-filled plankton poop
  The harmful effects of plastic pollution in the world’s oceans are well documented, but there’s a new angle to the risks that is just now getting attention...

Related Tags: food chain, ecology