Sentences with phrase «complex food web»

Over a few thousand years, this process gave rise to a complex food web in Lake Victoria, as the new species, in turn, influenced their environment.

But when a giant shelf collapses — as Larsen A and B did in 1995 and 2002 — solar - powered plankton production ramps up, and scientists think it could jump - start a complex food web of diverse marine life.

This effect was much stronger in simple communities than for the same species within a more complex food web.

This study gets us closer to understanding the complex food webs that are vital in nutrient dynamics and overall soil fertility,» said study first author Tami Swenson, a scientific engineering associate in Northen's group within the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area's Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division.

«It has been predicted that more complex food webs will be less vulnerable to extinction cascades because there is a greater chance that other species can step in and buffer against the effects of species loss.

Roberts said that «the presence of bone - borings provides a CSI - like opportunity to study the skeleton and reconstruct the timing of death and burial, and offers rare evidence of ancient insects and complex food webs during the age of the dinosaurs.»

As species are lost from once - complex food webs, there's an intermediate zone where bacteria - friendly species thrive, Morris and colleagues propose online December 7 in Science Advances.

Unlike previous ones, the new model showed that predator and prey populations fluctuate less in complex food webs — those with long food chains, omnivorous predators, and competing species of plant - eaters.

Small animals that decompose fallen leaves in the forest form complex food webs and are essential to a functioning ecosystem.

Also, vernal pools contain many species that interact through predator - prey and competitive interactions to form complex food webs.

Not exact matches

«The world's first Jewish ethical certification seal,» the group says, «synthesizes the aspirations of a burgeoning international movement for sustainable, responsible consumption and promotes increased sensitivity to the vast and complex web of global relationships that bring food to our tables.»

Those tended to mushroom once investigators traced products through the Continent's complex web of producers, food makers and suppliers.

The species that make up an ecosystem are connected in complex «food webs» of eater and eaten.

But the bigger picture is that it appears food webs in the central Pacific have lost components and become less complex over the last 130 years — meaning they're less resilient to changes.

This leads to the establishment of dense food webs, which contain numerous complex feeding relationships.

In these small areas, the number of species can be accurately controlled; however species numbers tend to be relatively low and the food webs therefore not very complex.

While there is concern about decimation of the complex web of life that is our soil, and the informational properties of plants and animal foods, eliminating pesticide exposure from your diet is a powerful step as evidenced by assessment studies.

While there is concern about decimation of the complex web of life that is our soil, and the informational properties of plants and animal foods, eliminating pesticide exposure from your diet is a powerful step as evidenced by

And the kids concluded the experiment by thinking about next time, and how to adapt the simulation in order to explore more and more complex food chains and webs.

The food web is extremely complex, and the removal of species from it can have profound effects.

Browsing the cognitive science journals online, I found a study suggesting that people regularly misapprehend the nature and effects of perturbation: Peter A. White, «Naive analysis of food web dynamics: a study of causal judgement about complex physical systems,» in Cognitive Science; abstract at:

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