"food web" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈfuːd wɛb/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈfud wɛb/ [General-American] Audio: en-au-food web.ogg Forms: food webs [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} food web (plural food webs)
  1. (ecology) A diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey. Categories (topical): Ecology Synonyms: foodweb, food cycle Related terms: food chain Translations (diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem): voedselweb (Afrikaans), شبكة غذائية (Arabic), bazka sare (Basque), xarxa tròfica [feminine] (Catalan), 食物網 (Chinese Mandarin), 食物网 (shíwùwǎng) (Chinese Mandarin), potravní síť [feminine] (Czech), fødenet (Danish), voedselweb [neuter] (Dutch), manĝoreto (Esperanto), manĝociklo (Esperanto), nutroreto (Esperanto), toiduvõrgustik (Estonian), toiduvõrk (Estonian), ravintoverkko (Finnish), réseau trophique [masculine] (French), rede trófica [feminine] (Galician), Nahrungsnetz [neuter] (German), rezo alimantè (Haitian Creole), מארג מזון (ma-arag mazon) [masculine] (Hebrew), fæðuvefur (Icelandic), jaring-jaring makanan (Indonesian), siklus makanan (Indonesian), rete alimentare [feminine] (Italian), rete trofica [feminine] (Italian), 먹이 그물 (meogi geumul) (Korean), næringsvev [masculine] (Norwegian), næringsnett [neuter] (Norwegian), ret trofic (Occitan), sieć troficzna [feminine] (Polish), sieć pokarmowa [feminine] (Polish), rede trófica [feminine] (Portuguese), cadeia alimentar [Brazil] (Portuguese), rețea trofică [feminine] (Romanian), rețea alimentară [feminine] (Romanian), ciclul trofic (Romanian), пищевая сеть (piščevaja setʹ) [feminine] (Russian), red trófica [feminine] (Spanish), näringsväv [common-gender] (Swedish), สายใยอาหาร (Thai), besin ağı (Turkish), besin döngüsü (Turkish), харчова́ мере́жа (xarčová meréža) [feminine] (Ukrainian), lưới thức ăn (Vietnamese)

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          "ref": "1996 September, Adam W. Whelchel, “Coastal Natural Resources of Northern San Diego County”, in Tissa Munasinghe, Phil Rosenberg, editors, Geology and Natural Resources of Coastal San Diego County, California: Guidebook to Accompany the 1996 Annual Field Trip of the San Diego Association of Geologists (SDAG Annual Field Trip Guides), [San Diego, Calif.]: [San Diego Association of Geologists], →OCLC, page 95, column 2:",
          "text": "[T]he dynamic nature of rivers that flow westward from the peninsular range of San Diego county has been altered by man. […] Human modifications tend to alter the habitat values, water quality, flow regimes, and most importantly the food web by changing the trophic structure.",
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          "ref": "2006, M. Jake Vander Zander, Julian D. Olden, Claudio Gratton, “Food-web Approaches in Restoration Ecology”, in Donald A. Falk, Margaret A. Palmer, Joy B. Zedler, editors, Foundations of Restoration Ecology (Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration), Washington, D.C.: Island Press, →ISBN, page 165:",
          "text": "No species exists in a vacuum. Rather, each species is embedded within a network of predator-prey interactions in what Charles Darwin referred to as an “entangled bank” and is now known in the most general sense as a food web. In its most basic form, a food web reveals to us something about the feeding relationships in a system. More broadly, food webs represent a way of thinking about an ecological system that considers trophic (consumer-resource) interactions among species or groups of similar species (trophic guilds or trophic levels).",
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          "text": "Food web structure can be closely tied to biodiversity, with certain structural attributes such as 'connectance' (the proportion of potential interactions between species that are actually realised) being generally related to the number of species in the food web[…]. Thus, agricultural management may affect food web structure indirectly by altering local biodiversity.",
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          "text": "In plant-dominated ecosystems the composition of the belowground foodweb shifts to a bacterial pathway when the source of organic matter is more labile, and to a fungal-dominated foodweb when the organic matter is more complex and recalcitrant.",
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          "ref": "1996 September, Adam W. Whelchel, “Coastal Natural Resources of Northern San Diego County”, in Tissa Munasinghe, Phil Rosenberg, editors, Geology and Natural Resources of Coastal San Diego County, California: Guidebook to Accompany the 1996 Annual Field Trip of the San Diego Association of Geologists (SDAG Annual Field Trip Guides), [San Diego, Calif.]: [San Diego Association of Geologists], →OCLC, page 95, column 2:",
          "text": "[T]he dynamic nature of rivers that flow westward from the peninsular range of San Diego county has been altered by man. […] Human modifications tend to alter the habitat values, water quality, flow regimes, and most importantly the food web by changing the trophic structure.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, M. Jake Vander Zander, Julian D. Olden, Claudio Gratton, “Food-web Approaches in Restoration Ecology”, in Donald A. Falk, Margaret A. Palmer, Joy B. Zedler, editors, Foundations of Restoration Ecology (Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration), Washington, D.C.: Island Press, →ISBN, page 165:",
          "text": "No species exists in a vacuum. Rather, each species is embedded within a network of predator-prey interactions in what Charles Darwin referred to as an “entangled bank” and is now known in the most general sense as a food web. In its most basic form, a food web reveals to us something about the feeding relationships in a system. More broadly, food webs represent a way of thinking about an ecological system that considers trophic (consumer-resource) interactions among species or groups of similar species (trophic guilds or trophic levels).",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, William E. Snyder, Jason M. Tylianakis, “The Ecology of Biodiversity—Biocontrol Relationships”, in Geoff M. Gurr, Steve D. Wratten, and William E. Snyder, with Donna M. Y. Read, editors, Biodiversity and Insect Pests: Key Issues for Sustainable Management, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 36, column 1:",
          "text": "Food web structure can be closely tied to biodiversity, with certain structural attributes such as 'connectance' (the proportion of potential interactions between species that are actually realised) being generally related to the number of species in the food web[…]. Thus, agricultural management may affect food web structure indirectly by altering local biodiversity.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Diana H. Wall, “Global Change in a Low Diversity Terrestrial Ecosystem: The McMurdo Dry Valleys”, in Alex D. Rogers, Nadine M. Johnston, Eugene J. Murphy, Andrew Clarke, editors, Antarctic Ecosystems: An Extreme Environment in a Changing World, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, page 53, column 1:",
          "text": "In plant-dominated ecosystems the composition of the belowground foodweb shifts to a bacterial pathway when the source of organic matter is more labile, and to a fungal-dominated foodweb when the organic matter is more complex and recalcitrant.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "ecology",
          "ecology"
        ],
        [
          "diagram",
          "diagram"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ],
        [
          "eat",
          "eat#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "ecosystem",
          "ecosystem"
        ],
        [
          "predator",
          "predator"
        ],
        [
          "web",
          "web"
        ],
        [
          "prey",
          "prey#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(ecology) A diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem, predators being higher in the web than their prey."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "ecology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfuːd wɛb/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈfud wɛb/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
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    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "foodweb"
    },
    {
      "word": "food cycle"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "af",
      "lang": "Afrikaans",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "voedselweb"
    },
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "شبكة غذائية"
    },
    {
      "code": "eu",
      "lang": "Basque",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "bazka sare"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "xarxa tròfica"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "食物網"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "shíwùwǎng",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "食物网"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "potravní síť"
    },
    {
      "code": "da",
      "lang": "Danish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "fødenet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "voedselweb"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "manĝoreto"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "manĝociklo"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "nutroreto"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "toiduvõrgustik"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "toiduvõrk"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "ravintoverkko"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "réseau trophique"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rede trófica"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Nahrungsnetz"
    },
    {
      "code": "ht",
      "lang": "Haitian Creole",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "rezo alimantè"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "ma-arag mazon",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "מארג מזון"
    },
    {
      "code": "is",
      "lang": "Icelandic",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "fæðuvefur"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "jaring-jaring makanan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "siklus makanan"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rete alimentare"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rete trofica"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "meogi geumul",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "먹이 그물"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "næringsvev"
    },
    {
      "code": "no",
      "lang": "Norwegian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "næringsnett"
    },
    {
      "code": "oc",
      "lang": "Occitan",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "ret trofic"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sieć troficzna"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "sieć pokarmowa"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rede trófica"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "Brazil"
      ],
      "word": "cadeia alimentar"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rețea trofică"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "rețea alimentară"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "ciclul trofic"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "piščevaja setʹ",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "пищевая сеть"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "red trófica"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "näringsväv"
    },
    {
      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "สายใยอาหาร"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "besin ağı"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "besin döngüsü"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "xarčová meréža",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "харчова́ мере́жа"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "diagram showing the organisms that eat other organisms in a particular ecosystem",
      "word": "lưới thức ăn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "food web"
}

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