Food Web

A food web is a network of interconnected feeding relationships within an ecosystem that shows how energy and nutrients flow between organisms. It links producers such as plants and algae with consumers and decomposers across multiple trophic levels. Food webs illustrate the complexity of ecological interactions and are used to study ecosystem stability, species roles and the effects of environmental change on biodiversity and energy transfer.

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How heatwaves are affecting Arctic phytoplanktonClimate

How heatwaves are affecting Arctic phytoplankton

Experiments conducted at the AWIPEV Station in Svalbard on this increasingly common phenomenon The basis of the marine food web in the Arctic, the phytoplankton,…
SourceSourceMay 17, 2024 Full article