To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Food Web: the feeding relationships between animals that determine how energy and nutrients are spread throughout an ecosystem.
- Trophic Level: a hierarchical level in an ecosystem made up of organisms that share the same function in the food web.
- Apex predator: the animals at the top trophic level that feed on animals and organisms below them.
- Mesopredator: a member of a mid-ranking trophic level that preys on animals and organisms in lower trophic levels and occasionally gets eat by apex predators.
- Mesopredator Release: an ecological phenomenon in which mesopredators rapidly grow in population once apex predators are removed from an ecosystem.
- Trophic Cascade: a series of dramatic changes in an ecosystem often triggered by mesopredator release.
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