trophic structure
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structure
noun
uk/ˈstrʌk.tʃər/us/ˈstrʌk.tʃɚ/
the way in which the parts of a system or object are arranged or organized, or a system arranged in ...
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Therefore, we assume that our data likely reflect thetrophicstructureof the animal community of the two sites studied.
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Trophicstructureof a neotropical frugivore community: is there competition between birds and bats?
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They move through the food web and are usually situated at the top of thetrophicstructureof the entire ecosystem.
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Introphicstructure, predators represented more than 40% of the species and individuals.
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In general, they are also very abundant, more so than their hosts, and this can be related to thetrophicstructureof certain ecosystems.
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However, thetrophicstructureof tropical animal communities of adjacent aquatic and terrestrial habitats, including animal species, which switch between the two habitats, such as amphibians is poorly known.
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A common metric used to quantify food webtrophicstructureis food chain length.
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Thetrophicstructureof the economy puts limits on how much of an economy's resources can be dedicated to creating and distributing information.
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Ecological economists also observe that an economy is structured like an ecosystem it has atrophicstructurethat controls flows of energy and materials.
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Stable isotopes document thetrophicstructureof a deep-sea cephalopod assemblage including giant octopod and giant squid.
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Diverse communities with complex trophic structures took 30 million years to reestablish.
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