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food web
Biology; Marine biology
A non-linear network of feeding between organisms that includes many food chains, and hence multiple organisms on each trophic level. For example, both sharks and tuna eat herring, and sharks also ...
diversity
Biology; Marine biology
A parameter describing, in combination, the species richness and evenness of a collection of species. Diversity is often used as a synonym for species richness.
character displacement
Biology; Marine biology
A pattern in which two species with overlapping ecological requirements differ more when they co-occur than when they do not. The difference is usually in a morphological feature related to resource ...
lecithotrophic larva
Biology; Marine biology
A planktonic-dispersing larva that lives off yolk supplied via the egg.
herbivore
Biology; Marine biology
A plant-eating animal. Sea urchins re a good example of a marine herbivore as they feed on kelp. See also heterotroph, primary consumer.
bloom
Biology; Marine biology
A population burst of phytoplankton that remains within a defined part of the water column.
grazer
Biology; Marine biology
A predator that consumes organisms far smaller than itself (e.g., copepods graze on diatoms).
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