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Fundamentals of Tropical Freshwater Wetlands, 2022 Ciliates are important elements of the trophic networks of aquatic and terrestrial environments, they can be primary producers (myxotrophs), consumers of bacteria, algae, flagellates, even other ciliates and can serve as food for metazoans, for all the above they are the link between different levels of food webs.
Laura, Mondragón-Camarillo, +1 more
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Essential Biomolecules in Food Webs
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2019 We here review the ecological role of essential nutritional biomolecules [fatty acids (FA), amino acids (AA), sterols, vitamins] in aquatic and terrestrial food webs, encompassing the forces behind their environmental distribution.
Liliane Ruess +1 more
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Collapse of terrestrial mammal food webs since the Late Pleistocene
Science, 2022 Food webs influence ecosystem diversity and functioning. Contemporary defaunation has reduced food web complexity, but simplification caused by past defaunation is difficult to reconstruct given the sparse paleorecord of predator-prey interactions.
Evan C. Fricke +8 more
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Environmental science and pollution research international, 2021 Heavy metals occur naturally in very small amounts in living organisms, but exposure to their higher concentrations is hazardous. Heavy metals at hazardous levels are commonly found in foodstuffs of Bangladesh, mainly due to the lack of safety guidelines
A. Sarker +7 more
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Multifunctionality of belowground food webs: resource, size and spatial energy channels
bioRxiv, 2021 The belowground compartment of terrestrial ecosystems drives nutrient cycling, the decomposition and stabilisation of organic matter, and supports aboveground life.
A. Potapov
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Size compartmentalization of energy channeling in terrestrial belowground food webs.
Ecology, 2021 Size-structured food webs form integrated trophic systems where energy is being channelled from small to large consumers. Empirical evidence suggests that size structure prevails in aquatic ecosystems while in terrestrial food webs trophic level is ...
A. Potapov +14 more
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Species invasion progressively disrupts the trophic structure of native food webs
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021 Significance Invasive species are a leading cause of biodiversity loss, yet the mechanisms by which invaders progressively disrupt ecosystems and native species remain unclear.
Charles A. Wainright +4 more
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Persistence increases with diversity and connectance in trophic metacommunities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 We are interested in understanding if metacommunity dynamics contribute to the persistence of complex spatial food webs subject to colonization-extinction dynamics.
Dominique Gravel +3 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2018 The impacts of biochemicals driving food web processes are under investigation for just the last few decades. In addition, as jellyfish are drawing increasing attentions because of their mass developments and of their potential capacity of driving food ...
Xupeng Chi +3 more
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Frontiers in Marine Science, 2017 Ecological research in recent decades revealed that species loss has a predominantly negative effect on ecosystem functioning and stability. Most of these studies were based on random species loss scenarios, but extinctions in nature are not random ...
Friederike G. Engel +3 more
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