food web

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Marine phytoplankton are tiny algae that sit at the base of ocean food webs.

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While scientists are still determining their exact position in the food web, nematodes are known to be ecologically important in many environments.

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena wanted to understand how these chemical defenses move through the forest food web.

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Within as little as three million years after the end-Permian mass extinction, the oceans supported complex food webs filled with predatory reptiles and amphibians.

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"These mesopelagic fish are doing the hard work of connecting the deep ocean to the surface food web. If we don't understand them, we're basically trying to solve a puzzle with the middle pieces missing."

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