 Food Chain
"Food Chain" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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The sequence of transfers of matter and energy from organism to organism in the form of FOOD. Food chains intertwine locally into a food web because most organisms consume more than one type of animal or plant. PLANTS, which convert SOLAR ENERGY to food by PHOTOSYNTHESIS, are the primary food source. In a predator chain, a plant-eating animal is eaten by a larger animal. In a parasite chain, a smaller organism consumes part of a larger host and may itself be parasitized by smaller organisms. In a saprophytic chain, microorganisms live on dead organic matter.
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D020387
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| MeSH Number(s) |
G16.500.275.157.250 N06.230.124.250
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| Concept/Terms |
Food Chain- Food Chain
- Chain, Food
- Chains, Food
- Food Chains
Saprophytic Chain- Saprophytic Chain
- Chain, Saprophytic
- Chains, Saprophytic
- Saprophytic Chains
Predator Chain- Predator Chain
- Chain, Predator
- Chains, Predator
- Predator Chains
Parasite Chain- Parasite Chain
- Chain, Parasite
- Chains, Parasite
- Parasite Chains
Food Web- Food Web
- Food Webs
- Web, Food
- Webs, Food
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Food Chain" by people in Profiles.
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Middleton AD, Kauffman MJ, McWhirter DE, Jimenez MD, Cook RC, Cook JG, Albeke SE, Sawyer H, White PJ. Linking anti-predator behaviour to prey demography reveals limited risk effects of an actively hunting large carnivore. Ecol Lett. 2013 Aug; 16(8):1023-30.
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Kauffman MJ, Brodie JF, Jules ES. Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen? A landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade: reply. Ecology. 2013 Jun; 94(6):1425-31.
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Middleton AD, Morrison TA, Fortin JK, Robbins CT, Proffitt KM, White PJ, McWhirter DE, Koel TM, Brimeyer DG, Fairbanks WS, Kauffman MJ. Grizzly bear predation links the loss of native trout to the demography of migratory elk in Yellowstone. Proc Biol Sci. 2013 Jul 07; 280(1762):20130870.
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Marczak LB, Ho CK, Wieski K, Vu H, Denno RF, Pennings SC. Latitudinal variation in top-down and bottom-up control of a salt marsh food web. Ecology. 2011 Feb; 92(2):276-81.
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Kauffman MJ, Brodie JF, Jules ES. Are wolves saving Yellowstone's aspen? A landscape-level test of a behaviorally mediated trophic cascade. Ecology. 2010 Sep; 91(9):2742-55.
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Ho CK, Pennings SC. Consequences of omnivory for trophic interactions on a salt marsh shrub. Ecology. 2008 Jun; 89(6):1714-22.
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Kauffman MJ, Varley N, Smith DW, Stahler DR, MacNulty DR, Boyce MS. Landscape heterogeneity shapes predation in a newly restored predator-prey system. Ecol Lett. 2007 Aug; 10(8):690-700.
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