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Environment and Public Health > Environment > Ecosystem > Food Chain
Biological Phenomena > Ecological and Environmental Phenomena > Environment > Ecosystem > Food Chain

Preferred term

Food Chain  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Chain, Parasite
  • Chain, Predator
  • Chain, Saprophytic
  • Chains, Parasite
  • Chains, Predator
  • Chains, Saprophytic
  • Food Web
  • Food Webs
  • Parasite Chain
  • Parasite Chains
  • Predator Chain
  • Predator Chains
  • Saprophytic Chain
  • Saprophytic Chains
  • Web, Food
  • Webs, Food

Scope note

  • The sequence of transfers of matter and energy from organism to organism in the form of FOOD. Food chains intertwine locally into a food web because most organisms consume more than one type of animal or plant. PLANTS, which convert SOLAR ENERGY to food by PHOTOSYNTHESIS, are the primary food source. In a predator chain, a plant-eating animal is eaten by a larger animal. In a parasite chain, a smaller organism consumes part of a larger host and may itself be parasitized by smaller organisms. In a saprophytic chain, microorganisms live on dead organic matter.

History note

  • 99

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D020387

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