Research shows food web complexity is critical to ecosystem health, with studies revealing how contaminants spread through networks, keystone species reshape communities, and climate shifts threaten interconnected species from marine animals to pollinators.
·Food web complexity directly determines biodiversity's impact on ecosystem functioning across multiple environments
·PFAS contamination tracked spreading through Great Lakes food webs over four decades
·Single predator species restructures entire food web dynamics in California suburban ecosystem
·Bumblebees identified as essential food web participants in Alaska's ecological networks
·El Niño warming threatens Pacific marine food webs and dependent wildlife populations
drawn from Nature, Interlochen Public Radio, news - Mongabay, EurekAlert! · updated 2h ago