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the food chain's report card — who eats whom, ranked.
means relating to nutrition and feeding, especially an organism's position in a food web.
from from greek trophe, meaning nourishment — the same root that gives us atrophy, when nourishment stops arriving.
trophic cascaderemove one predator, watch entire ecosystem shift
trophic levelusually only four or five deep on earth
wolves exampleyellowstone wolves reshaped rivers by scaring elk
shared rootatrophy is trophic's nourishment, withheld