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Food chain

Known as: Food chain and webs, Chain (disambiguation), Food cycle 
A food chain is a linear network of links in a food web starting from producer organisms (such as grass or trees which use radiation from the sun to… 
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Systems ecology

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Highly Cited
2015
Highly Cited
2015
Microplastic ingestion by scleractinian corals
We report for the first time the ingestion of microplastics by scleractinian corals, and the presence of microplastics in coral… 
Highly Cited
2011
Highly Cited
2011
Chaos in a Three Species Food Chain
Chaos is an important research direction in ecology and the number of species in a chaotic state has complex movements in strange… 
Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Breaking the Food Chains: An Investigation of Food Justice Activism*
This article develops the concept of food justice, which places access to healthy, affordable, culturally appropriate food in the… 
Highly Cited
2007
Highly Cited
2007
Global patterns of aquatic food chain length
Food chain length is a fundamental ecosystem property, and plays a central role in determining ecosystem functioning. Recent… 
Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Ecosystem consequences of diversity depend on food chain length in estuarine vegetation
Biodiversity and food chain length each can strongly influence ecosystem functioning, yet their interactions rarely have been… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Prebiotics, probiotics and human gut microbiology
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
TROPHIC RANK AND THE SPECIES-AREA RELATIONSHIP
We acknowledge support by the National Science Foundation (to R. D. Holt and G. A. Polis), and by the National Environmental… 
Review
1998
Review
1998
Biomanipulation as an Application of Food-Chain Theory: Constraints, Synthesis, and Recommendations for Temperate Lakes
ABSTRACT The aim of this review is to identify problems, find general patterns, and extract recommendations for successful… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
A Quantitative Health Assessment Index for Rapid Evaluation of Fish Condition in the Field
Abstract The health assessment index (HAI) is an extension and refinement of a previously published field necropsy system. The… 
Highly Cited
1989
Highly Cited
1989
Seasonal patterns of bacterivory by flagellates, ciliates, rotifers, and cladocerans in a freshwater planktonic community
Bacterivory in eutrophic Lake Oglethorpe, Georgia, was determined by direct observation of tracer particle uptake by all members… 
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