The first-ever calculation of human trophic level (HTL), a measure of what and how much of a specific food people eat, "challenges the perception of humans as top predators," according to a new study.

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In ecology, the trophic level is the position that an organism occupies in a food chain - what it eats, and what eats it. Wildlife biologists look at a natural "economy of energy" that ultimately ...

Increasing productivity can have a variety of effects on the abundances of higher trophic levels. Previous work, based on models with one type per trophic level, has suggested that increasing nutrient ...

Born in food web ecology, the concept of trophic levels -- the hierarchy of who eats who in the natural world -- is an elegant way to understand how biomass and energy move through a natural system.

The trophic cascade is a combination of two words- trophic which means feeding and nutrition or trophic level of the food chain; cascade means succession of stages, operations, processes or units.