NOUN
- (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member
How To Use food chain In A Sentence
- According to the EPA, fish at the top of the aquatic food chain bioaccumulate methylmercury to a level approximately 1 million to 10 million times greater than dissolved concentrations found in surrounding waters. Field and Stream Report: The Truth about Mercury and the Fish You Eat
- But that will thankfully never happen, because without trees and animals, food chains collapse, the air is unbreathable, they die, we die - or maybe no one's thought of that.
- Innovation starts with the "understory" of the economic food chain: the entrepreneurs. Krisztina Holly: The Innovation Ecosystem
- And we have studies looking at organisms from sponges to sharks, looking at the food chain, both on the bottom of the ocean and also on the extreme layer of - a very thin layer called the neuston, the very surface of the ocean. Assessing The BP Spill's Impact
- Priest's conclusion was that it was likely that the metal was present in the food chain.
- Pesticides work their way up the food chain from plants, through insects and birds to humans.
- They play a vital role in the food chain by eating aphids, which can cause havoc to crops. The Sun
- With the death of the plants the terrestrial food chain would collapse, and complex life would be wiped from the land. Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
- But, there have been enough wrinkles in recent events to suggest that we are not simply seeing the standard food chain of capitalism in action.
- The consequences are that a lot of hoggs which would have otherwise gone into the food chain have been disposed of at public expense and there is now a scarcity of sheep meat.