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food cycle — n. Ecol. FOOD WEB … English World dictionary
food cycle — noun (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains • Syn: ↑food web • Topics: ↑ecology, ↑bionomics, ↑environmental science • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
food cycle — see food web … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
Food web — A freshwater aquatic and terrestrial food web. A food web (or food cycle) depicts feeding connections (what eats what) in an ecological community. Ecologists can broadly lump all life forms into one of two categories called trophic levels: 1) the … Wikipedia
food web — noun (ecology) a community of organisms where there are several interrelated food chains • Syn: ↑food cycle • Topics: ↑ecology, ↑bionomics, ↑environmental science • Hypernyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
food chain — noun (ecology) a community of organisms where each member is eaten in turn by another member • Topics: ↑ecology, ↑bionomics, ↑environmental science • Hypernyms: ↑organic phenomenon • Part Holonyms: ↑ … Useful english dictionary
food web — Ecol. a series of organisms related by predator prey and consumer resource interactions; the entirety of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. Also called food cycle. [1960 65] * * * … Universalium
food web — noun a diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey Syn: food cycle … Wiktionary
Food miles — is a term which refers to the distance food is transported from the time of its production until it reaches the consumer. It is one dimension used in assessing the environmental impact of food. The concept of food miles originated in 1990 in the… … Wikipedia
Food security — refers to the availability of food and one s access to it. A household is considered food secure when its occupants do not live in hunger or fear of starvation. World wide around 852 million people are chronically hungry due to extreme poverty,… … Wikipedia
