Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating ... and understanding the dynamics of energy transfer in an ecosystem.
Figure 1 shows a simplified food web in a desert ecosystem. In this food web ... phytoplankton is 10 to 1000 times faster than that of grasslands and forests, thus, less carbon is stored in ...
Hirokazu Toju and colleagues followed the complex food webs between 50 predatory ... The studied ecosystem is a ...
A major challenge is to understand how these drivers interact to help inform sustainability policy aimed at protecting the multiple ecosystem services that grasslands provide and enhance their ...
As a result, the soil ecosystem is more resilient and better ... herbivores and predators in the soil food web remained stable. They have just published their paper in the journal Global Change ...