Born in food web ecology, the concept of trophic levels—the hierarchy of who eats who in the natural world—is an elegant way to understand how biomass and energy move through a natural system. It's ...

Just published in PeerJ Life & Environment, a new research article by Professor Mark Costello (Nord University) and Doctor Han-Yang Lin (University of Auckland) unveils a comprehensive analysis of the ...

Zooplankton are a critical component of marine ecosystems. They link phytoplankton production to higher levels of the marine food chain (which the scientists call trophic levels), including ...

Human activity has lessened the resilience of modern coral reefs by restricting the food-fueled energy flow that moves through the food chains of these critical ecosystems, reports an international ...

Coral reefs are undoubtedly in crisis. Scientists have documented concerning coral bleaching events, dramatic declines in coral cover, fish and shark populations across the Caribbean over recent ...

A new analysis published in the journal Nature highlights the dimensions of modern coral reef degradation, according to an international team of researchers, including scientists from Boston College's ...