Sentences with phrase «of the food chain»

Because we're top of the food chain in the attractive qualities scale.

You start at the bottom of the food chain with a lousy car in lousy races.

Under those conditions the shells of many marine organisms would dissolve, including those at the base of the food chain.

Movies may not even be at the top of the food chain in that scenario.

These oils have never been part of the food chain until the industrial era and they've never been shown to be safe.

It can be used during every stage of the food chain to keep produce fresh.

They help add dry land to the island, protect the shoreline, provide shelter for juvenile marine life and are the beginnings of a food chain for some marine life.

A diverse ecosystem populated by many species from all levels of the food chain provides higher levels of ecosystem services, the team reports.

We're definitely at the top of the food chain when it comes to the size of the company.

This information is not found in the rest of our food chain, even if we are eating organic, local, etc..

It remains a perennial favorite with its examples from land and sea and simple explanations of food chains as a flow of energy and the impact of humans on food chains.

You start at the bottom of the food chain with a lousy car in lousy races.

In fact, it wasn't at the top of the food chain at all.

We need to keep this dangerous chemical out of the food chain.

Even so, there's evidence of a food chain of sorts.

Many scientists have long considered the length of the food chain in the open sea to be relatively stable, with roughly the same animal species feeding on each other through time.

Sadly, our manipulation of the food chain doesn't stop with the poor cows and chickens.

Yet the president of the food chain may decide against automation because it would cause a loss of jobs for his employees.

The population crash of bats may have serious consequences on the structure of food chains and ecosystems.

Though most of the food chains try to keep the outlets company owned in certain cases it is not always possible and hence are given as franchises.

But you got cholesterol at the top of the food chain here.

He must have learned something in those fake classes, like how being at the top of the food chain pays well.

A major thrust of current research is to understand how creatures like these at the bottom of the food chain respond to ocean acidification.

What they can also see is the combination of species in the different links of the food chain.

More important, they reveal how the health of a food chain determines the health of an ecosystem.

It's obvious in this new world that man is not the top of the food chain anymore.

I commonly think back to my days in elementary school during science classes when my teacher would show off elaborate diagrams of food chains.

Green plants are at the base of the food chain.

But as a vital part of the food chain, there could be significant knock - on effects for other species as well.

Another $ 50 billion would disappear from the hunting, fishing, and bird - watching industries without the bugs at the bottom of the food chain.

Or will we end up at the lower end of the food chain?

Any impacts of such changes on lower levels of the food chain may be expected to affect higher level species, such as large fish and all whales.

Keeping house cats out of the food chain isn't just good for the cats.

I think being on top of the food chain would bring with it a lot of pressure, and being on the bottom would be so tough.

They get involved in every aspect of the food chain, from origins (Chapter I) to leftovers (Chapter IV).

Nevertheless, the systems analyst can not do his job until the president of the food chain has weighed these considerations and decided.

Phytoplankton not only constitutes the foundation of the food chain in the oceans, it also fixes carbon through photosynthesis and generates oxygen with the help of solar energy.

As Jose Oliva of the Food Chain Workers Alliance told us at the Slow Meat symposium in Denver, the food chain sector is both the largest and the lowest paid sector of the US economy.

These lively chickens highlight plants as the start of food chains as well as decomposers, herbivores, and carnivores.

The goal of this comprehensive research is to understand the whole ecosystem in the study area of Tost; from the snow leopard at the top of the food chain down to its prey, both wild and domestic, and how these animals use vegetation and water sources.

he unsung heroes of the global carbon cycle are methanogens — microbes at the bottom of the food chain who break down the waste products of other organisms and release methane gas into the atmosphere.

Last year, Walmart announced a commitment to create a more sustainable food system, with a focus on improving the affordability of food by lowering the «true cost» of food for both customers and the environment, increasing access to food, making healthier eating easier, and improving the safety and transparency of the food chain.

Even predators at the top of the food chain consume their placentas.