Ecosystems are characterized by interconnected structure and functions. A study published in the open-access journal PLOS ...

Orcas, better known as killer whales, sit atop the aquatic food chain as one of the most lethal apex predators on Earth.

Food chains and food webs and/or food networks describe the feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. In other words, they show the transfer of material and energy from one ...

This short film for KS1 pupils describes food chains, explaining what consumers and producers are, and what can happen if a food chain is disrupted.

Most studies of food webs look at how predators at the top of the food chain control prey and plant populations below them. But a new Cornell study, published March 26 in Science, is one of the ...

Scientists studying dolphins dining off the California coastline have found that the marine food web is starting to look a little threadbare. The length of food chains in that web appears to have ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and Food Science are shedding new light on how a ...

A Biology Letters study found that when a mosquito larvae eats microplastic, that plastic can remain in the insect's body into adulthood.

Read about the levels of the marine (ocean) food chain in this article from National Geographic.

This prehistoric food chain anecdote is based on new fossil evidence detailed in a study published August 29 in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology.