Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to nutrition.
- adjective Ecology Of or involving the feeding habits or relationships of different organisms in a food chain or food web.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to nourishment or nutrition; concerned in nutritive processes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Physiol.) Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing.
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
nutrition - adjective ecology Describing the
relationships between thefeeding habits oforganisms in afood chain
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- adjective of or relating to nutrition
Etymologies
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Examples
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Introduced plants are a major threat to the native vegetation especially on islands where certain trophic levels may not be occupied leaving an opening, which can be readily occupied by an introduced species.
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What he calls a trophic cascade is a reduction in apex predators leading to a higher abundance of planktivorous fish that feed on zooplankton biomass.
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The process by which the apex beasts affect the rest of the ecosystem is called a 'trophic cascade', whereby their loss has a consequence on everything beneath them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The process by which the apex beasts affect the rest of the ecosystem is called a 'trophic cascade', whereby their loss has a consequence on everything beneath them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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The process by which the apex beasts affect the rest of the ecosystem is called a 'trophic cascade', whereby their loss has a consequence on everything beneath them.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Each segment of the food web within which organisms take in food in the same manner is called a trophic level.
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The target cells then release a flood of chemicals, called trophic factors, that strengthen the incipient connections.
Your Child's Brain 2008
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It's what scientists call a trophic cascade, when one animal, usually a top predator, has a cascading top-down effect on different levels of the food chain.
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These interactions among producers and the organisms that consume and decompose them are called trophic interactions, and are composed of trophic levels in an energy pyramid, with most energy and mass in the primary producers at the base, and higher levels of feeding on top of this, starting with primary consumers feeding on primary producers, secondary consumers feeding on these, and so on.
Ecosystem 2008
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It's what scientists call a trophic cascade, when one animal, usually a top predator, has a cascading top-down effect on different levels of the food chain.
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Yet if the trophic balance of the colony be upset...
- Caryl P. Haskins, Of Ants and Men, 1939, p. 143
December 17, 2008