How to Use food web in a Sentence

food web

noun
  • The caribou are at the heart of the wild food web in this part of the world.
    — Eva Holland, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Both species play key roles in ocean food webs, from the surface to the seafloor.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
  • As apex predators at the top of the food chain, walleye keep the food web in check.
    — Caitlin Looby, Journal Sentinel, 11 June 2024
  • But those marine species are very minor players in the food web.
    — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2022
  • Fish eaters are the top of the food web and support a valuable fishery.
    — Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
  • Get that soil food web working even before the plant goes into the ground.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 25 May 2018
  • Now, the fly food web is all but gone, and things aren’t looking good for the shrimp, either.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Nov. 2022
  • The water has become too salty for brine flies, a key species in the ecosystem’s food web.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2023
  • The copepods that live off the coast of Oregon are good sources of fat in the food web.
    — Ted Sickinger, OregonLive.com, 22 Apr. 2018
  • This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
    — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The food web is one of the first concepts students learn in ecology.
    — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Sep. 2024
  • Among native plants, some contribute more to the food web than others.
    — Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
  • This isn’t just about pointing out problems, such as the destruction of a food web.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 25 June 2024
  • Now that the rats are gone, the ground lizards may be reclaiming their rightful place at the top of the food web.
    — Geoffrey Giller, Scientific American, 30 Apr. 2018
  • How, then, did the meat-eaters rise to the top of the food web in the Age of Dinosaurs?
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 May 2020
  • All Alaska gardeners know leaves are broken down by the soil food web.
    — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Sep. 2021
  • Researchers are still trying to understand how the toxins move through the food web as well.
    — Bymegan Gannon, science.org, 16 July 2024
  • Reefs are a major part of the ocean food web, with nooks and crannies filled with worms, shrimps and other creatures.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • After the natives were planted, the food web took off, the Aoyagis say.
    — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
  • Plump lake trout reigned atop a food web loaded with species such as perch, sturgeon, lake herring, whitefish and chubs.
    — Dan Egan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2011
  • Brine shrimp are part of the foundation of the Great Salt Lake's food web.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
  • Luna moths also are part of the food web, Kwiatkowski explained.
    — Don Lyman, BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
  • Just like the food web in which a plant is eaten by an insect and an insect eaten by a bird, there is a soil food web.
    — Mary Berube, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Nov. 2022
  • The impacts cascaded through the food web, affecting fish, birds and whales.
    — Lauren Sommer, NPR, 29 Feb. 2024
  • The region can barely sustain the algae and plankton that form the base of a normal food web.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 8 Feb. 2022
  • Lichen powers the food web in rocky environments like those found on Trail 2.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 4 July 2024
  • The marine drifters form the base of an intricate food web and attract an abundance of fish, seals, whales and seabirds.
    — Avery Schuyler Nunn, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Dec. 2024
  • The microbes will consume these extra-heavy stable isotopes and pass them through the food web from one species to the next.
    — Amina Khan, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • The consequences both for these species and the food web as a whole are downright terrifying.
    — Wired, 11 Nov. 2019
  • To do this, the researchers sketched out a description of the core interactions that make up the food web.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 26 Oct. 2019

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