In deep-water aquatic ecosystems, with their low standing biomass, rapid turnover of organisms, and high rate of harvest, the grazing food chain may be dominant. As a diagram tool, food web has ...

A benthic aquatic macroinvertebrate is a small creature that does not have a backbone and lives at the bottom of a body of ...

The aquatic population is increasingly exposed to toxic compounds through food and the environment. A group of these toxic ...

Aquatic insects, such as caddisflies or dragonflies, contain significantly more omega-3 long-chain (LC) PUFA than terrestrial insects because omega-3-LC-PUFA rich algae form the base of the food ...

Sidenote: there are also some autotrophs that aren’t plants, like cyanobacteria and algae, which photosynthesize to keep aquatic ... in a food chain, which is essentially an ecosystem’s ...

All organisms in an ecosystem depend on each other. Food chains show the flow of energy from one organism to another. Food chains show the feeding relationships between organisms. Food webs show ...

Ecosystems can be terrestrial (land-based) or aquatic (water-based), ranging from tiny ponds to vast forests. Food chains and food webs interconnect organisms within an ecosystem. Producers ...

[Photo by Zhang Yuyang/For chinadaily.com.cn] Earlier this year, Chongqing became part of the global aquatic food supply chain after completing its first re-export trade of processed marine products.