food web

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These fossils come from the Morrison Formation* in the United States and were used to reconstruct a detailed food web, showing how plants, herbivores, and carnivores were linked through feeding relationships.

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Gray wolves are well known for their powerful influence on land-based food webs, where they help regulate prey populations and shape ecosystems.

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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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