University of Delaware Professor of Entomology Doug Tallamy published a new research study in Nature that systematically identifies the most critical plants needed to sustain food webs across the ...

Figure 1: Graphical display of the results for the Chesapeake Bay food web with 45 taxa and weighted by interaction strength. Placement of a taxon indicates its role within its compartment. For ...

Secondary production of species in multi-species assemblages can be used to quantify bottom-up linkages with flow webs, top-down linkages with ingestion/production webs and trophic position Secondary ...

Food chains and food webs are important ecological concepts that describe the relationships between species in an ecosystem and how energy is transferred between them. The two terms are used ...

What is the most critical part of any ecosystem? You should have learned early in elementary school that it is the sun. The sun should be on every food web diagram as it’s the sun that provides the ...

Ivan Nagelkerken receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Sean Connell receives funding from The Australian Research Council. Silvan Goldenberg does not work for, consult, own shares in ...