Food web is an important conceptual tool for illustrating the feeding relationships among species within a community, revealing species interactions and community structure, and understanding the ...

Thus far, this has been shown by studies in the so-called grassland, i.e. in areas that ... important for stabilizing the insects' food webs. The decline in biodiversity and the associated loss ...

However, due to excess nutrients and/or the absence of herbivores less light can reach lower vegetation layers in grasslands ... structure -- specifically food webs and interactions between ...

The paper, "A distributed experiment demonstrates widespread sodium limitations in grassland food webs," published by Welti and Michael Kaspari, senior author and professor of biology in the OU ...

Grassland Ecosystem ... Thus interconnected food chain system is formed known as a food web. 2. Nutrient cycle in an ecosystem: For any ecosystem to be successful, it is important that the ...

New research led by a team of scientists from The University of Manchester has shown that intensive grassland management impairs the capacity of soils to buffer extreme droughts, which are becoming ...

However, these grasslands should be making a larger contribution to the future food supply, providing feed for livestock, to limit the use of grain crops that could otherwise be used for baking bread.

“Degradation is a huge problem in grassland and savannas, affecting many of the ecosystem services that they provide to human lives and nature globally.” Meier points at the production of food ...

"Grasslands are generally regarded to play an important role in increasing food production to meet future food demand," says Tamara Fetzel, a researcher at the Institute of Social Ecology in ...