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Contributors began using the portal in 2015 to log water temperature and salinity data, note observations of important wildlife species—such as beluga and common eider ducks—and track the flow of contaminants through the food web.
—Hannah Hoag, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2024
Like today, the warming climate affected the environment on land and in the sea, with extreme downpours and heat-stressed plankton at the base of the food web.
—Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2023
One dead animal can support a whole pop-up food web of microbes, soil fauna and arthropods that make their living off carcasses.
—Jennifer Debruyn, The Conversation, 28 Sep. 2023
Warmer water helps phytoplankton, microscopic plant-like organisms that form the base of the food web, bloom.
—Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
The researchers found that centuries ago different types of sharks were feeding on animals that occupied the same level of the food web—prey that lived near each other and ate similar things.
—Sarah Sloat, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Feb. 2024
The impacts cascaded through the food web, affecting fish, birds and whales.
—Lauren Sommer, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
If temperatures get too high, certain species might suffer, shaking the foundations of the ocean food web.
—Matt Simon, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024
Shading the understory can cause diverse grasses and shrubs to die off–triggering a ripple effect of cascading species losses all across the food web.
—Popular Science, 15 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1932, in the meaning defined above
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“Food web.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/food%20web. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.
Kids Definition
food web
noun
: the whole group of interacting food chains in an ecological community
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