https://www.coastalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Trophic_level_-_a_marine_example&feed=atom&action=historyTrophic level - a marine example - Revision history2024-03-28T10:12:09ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.31.7https://www.coastalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Trophic_level_-_a_marine_example&diff=78525&oldid=prevDronkers J at 21:04, 27 December 20202020-12-27T21:04:34Z<p></p>
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</table>Dronkers Jhttps://www.coastalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Trophic_level_-_a_marine_example&diff=78499&oldid=prevDronkers J at 13:30, 27 December 20202020-12-27T13:30:51Z<p></p>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Trophic levels were initially defined to include only discrete steps (left <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">of diagram</ins>). Organic detritus and microscopic plants (phytoplankton) occupy the first trophic level. Tiny zooplankton, which feed on phytoplankton, reside at the second level. Creatures that eat zooplankton sit at the third level, and so forth. But many marine creatures feed from multiple trophic levels and so could not be fit into this classic scheme. Thus the modern approach allows the assignment of trophic level to span a continuum rather than forcing it to take on integral values. Marine biologists would, for example, assign the anchovy (''Engraulis encrasicolus'') which supplements its main diet of phytoplankton with some zooplankton, to a trophic level of about 2.2; people fishing for anchovies (and eating a diet of only these small fish) would then be assigned a trophic level of 3.2 (right). Author:Edward Roberts  SOURCE: www.seafriends.org|frame]]</div></td></tr>
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