Trophic level, any step in a nutritive series, or food chain, of an ecosystem
The different trophic levels are defined in the Table below
A trophic level is the group of organisms within an ecosystem which occupy the same level in a food chain
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The relative energy in trophic levels in a Silver Springs, Florida, ecosystem is shown
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Overfishing and Hunting: Removing top predators can disrupt the food web, leading to an increase in prey species, which further affects the plants or smaller creatures they consume
The losses have modified or even eliminated concatenations of indirect interactions propagating from predators to herbivores to plants, inter alia
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The Utility of Trophic Levels
The apex consumer (walleye) had more than four times the amount of PCBs compared to phytoplankton
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Indeed, this is how they most commonly occur, although evidence of 4- and 5-level trophic cascades have been Biological magnification refers to the process of increase in the concentration of a toxic chemical with increasing trophic level in a food chain
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DDT is an example of a substance that biomagnifies; birds accumulate sufficient amounts of DDT from eating fish to cause adverse effects on bird populations
You can think of them as food chain levels or as a trophic level pyramid
The levels are broadly grouped into three including producers, consumers, and decomposers
Trophic position, rather than trophic level, shows exactly where a species fits into the trophic hierarchy (e
This implied that we had fished out the large, valuable, high trophic level fish of the world (like tuna & billfish), and were moving down the food chain