Examples include mercury bioaccumulation in the Florida Everglades and mercury accumulation in the San Francisco Bay. Food webs can also help us study and explain how species diversity is related ...

This work has been extended to identify the characteristics of species (for example, their position in the food web) that, if removed, accelerate ecosystem collapse 7,8,9, and also species that ...

Furthermore, fast pathways (for example, up a food chain), on average, are composed of stronger interactions than slow pathways. Moving up trophic levels in the food webs, the production ...