 Food Chain
"Food Chain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The sequence of transfers of matter and energy from organism to organism in the form of FOOD. Food chains intertwine locally into a food web because most organisms consume more than one type of animal or plant. PLANTS, which convert SOLAR ENERGY to food by PHOTOSYNTHESIS, are the primary food source. In a predator chain, a plant-eating animal is eaten by a larger animal. In a parasite chain, a smaller organism consumes part of a larger host and may itself be parasitized by smaller organisms. In a saprophytic chain, microorganisms live on dead organic matter.
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D020387
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G16.500.275.157.250 N06.230.124.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Food Chain- Food Chain
- Chain, Food
- Chains, Food
- Food Chains
Saprophytic Chain- Saprophytic Chain
- Chain, Saprophytic
- Chains, Saprophytic
- Saprophytic Chains
Predator Chain- Predator Chain
- Chain, Predator
- Chains, Predator
- Predator Chains
Parasite Chain- Parasite Chain
- Chain, Parasite
- Chains, Parasite
- Parasite Chains
Food Web- Food Web
- Food Webs
- Web, Food
- Webs, Food
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Schrama M, Quist CW, Arjen de Groot G, Cieraad E, Ashworth D, Laros I, Hansen LH, Leff J, Fierer N, Bardgett RD. Cessation of grazing causes biodiversity loss and homogenization of soil food webs. Proc Biol Sci. 2023 Nov 29; 290(2011):20231345.
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Wijas BJ, Cornwell WK, Letnic M. Herbivores disrupt the flow of food resources to termites in dryland ecosystems. Ecology. 2023 05; 104(5):e4035.
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Morton DN, Keyes A, Barner AK, Dee LE. Merging theory and experiments to predict and understand coextinctions. Trends Ecol Evol. 2022 10; 37(10):886-898.
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Dee LE, Keyes AA. Analyzing ecosystem services as part of ecological networks in three salt marsh ecosystems. Ecology. 2022 03; 103(3):e3609.
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Beauchesne D, Cazelles K, Archambault P, Dee LE, Gravel D. On the sensitivity of food webs to multiple stressors. Ecol Lett. 2021 Oct; 24(10):2219-2237.
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Keyes AA, McLaughlin JP, Barner AK, Dee LE. An ecological network approach to predict ecosystem service vulnerability to species losses. Nat Commun. 2021 03 11; 12(1):1586.
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Dee LE, Okamtoto D, G?rdmark A, Montoya JM, Miller SJ. Temperature variability alters the stability and thresholds for collapse of interacting species. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2020 12 21; 375(1814):20190457.
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Meyers PJ, Doellman MM, Ragland GJ, Hood GR, Egan SP, Powell THQ, Nosil P, Feder JL. Can the genomics of ecological speciation be predicted across the divergence continuum from host races to species? A case study in Rhagoletis. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2020 08 31; 375(1806):20190534.
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Shoemaker LG, Barner AK, Bittleston LS, Teufel AI. Quantifying the relative importance of variation in predation and the environment for species coexistence. Ecol Lett. 2020 Jun; 23(6):939-950.
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Martin A, Boyd P, Buesseler K, Cetinic I, Claustre H, Giering S, Henson S, Irigoien X, Kriest I, Memery L, Robinson C, Saba G, Sanders R, Siegel D, Villa-Alfageme M, Guidi L. The oceans' twilight zone must be studied now, before it is too late. Nature. 2020 04; 580(7801):26-28.
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