"trophic transfer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in the Asia and Pacific Region, Convention on Migratory Species, page 26",
          "text": "It is also commonly observed that predators of seabirds ingest high quantities of plastics via trophic transfer.",
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        "The transference of materials, such as chemicals, contaminants, plastics, etc., through different trophic levels of the food web."
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  "word": "trophic transfer"
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          "ref": "2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in the Asia and Pacific Region, Convention on Migratory Species, page 26",
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  "word": "trophic transfer"
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