Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a community, revealing species interactions and community structure, and understanding the ...

To accomplish these objectives, I use a fictional food web that has been simplified from the more complex web of a riverine invertebrates found on submerged wood (Benke & Wallace 1997; Benke et al.

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Presenting new approaches to studying food webs, this book uses practical ...

Food chains show the feeding relationships between organisms. Food webs show how all the food chains in an ecosystem interact. A food chain shows the feeding relationship between organisms.

Food chains show the feeding relationships between organisms. Food webs show how all the food chains in an ecosystem interact. A food chain shows the feeding relationship between organisms.

Black-crowned night-heron. This predator is adapted to hunt at night. In the French Guiana this is one of the major night heron species with its cousin the Yellow-crowned night-heron (Nycticorax ...

In this activity, students play a food web game to predict and explain how the population of a species changes as its predator or prey population changes. By acting out different fictional scenarios, ...

What would a world without parasites look like? Despite the ubiquity of parasites and pathogens in all ecosystems, our understanding of their significance in mediating predator-prey interactions, ...

We are particularly interested in how insect food webs are built from first principles: how (meta)populations of multiple species interact, and how species-specific characteristics blend with ...