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  2. Sep 1, 2015 · Beginning with Charles Elton's insights into food web structure, and continuing to contemporary ecologists and emerging areas of study, we highlight some of the most important empirical and theoretical advances made over the last century. The review highlights that there are fundamentally different ways in which food webs are depicted and studied.

    • Craig A. Layman, Sean T. Giery, Stephanie Buhler, Ryann Rossi, Tiffany Penland, Mary N. Henson, Alex...
    • 2015
  3. Feb 17, 2023 · Previously known as the food cycle, the food web model was developed by Charles Elton in his book Animal Ecology in 1927. Food Web Trophic Levels. Organisms in food webs are grouped into four groups or trophic levels. They are: Producers or autotrophs make up the first trophic level of the food chain.

  4. Aug 28, 2024 · Food web, a complex network of interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community. A food chain shows how matter and energy from food are transferred from one organism to another, whereas a food web illustrates how food chains intertwine in an ecosystem.

  5. The fundamental purpose of food webs is to describe feeding relationship among species in a community. Food webs can be constructed to describe the species interactions.

  6. Jan 1, 2007 · The earliest specific food web I have found (Fig. 6) is on “The boll weevil complex,” published in 1912 by Pierce, Cushman, and Hood in a USDA Bulletin. Their motive was to promote bowl weevil eradication—by encouraging its predators and parasites.

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    • 2007
    • 01 January 2007
  7. Nov 21, 2022 · A food web is a graphic representation of a holistic, nonlinear web of primary producers, primary consumers, and higher-level consumers used to describe ecosystem structure and dynamics (Figure 1). Figure 1. Example of simplified food chains (a) and food webs (b) of terrestrial and marine ecosystems.

  8. Food webs are one of the core thematic frameworks in the ecological sciences. Broadly defined, food webs are networks of consumer–resource interactions among a group of organisms, populations, or aggregate trophic units (see Table 1 for definitions of key terms in this review).

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