Millbrook, NY – A distant relative of shrimp, zooplankton are an important food source for fish and other aquatic animals. Long characterized as algae feeders, a new study published this week in ...

Life in lakes depends on aquatic plants. As primary producers, these plants can perform photosynthesis to create food and energy from sunlight, which provides the basis of aquatic food webs.

Timothy D. Jardine, Ryan Woods, Jonathan Marshall, James Fawcett, Jaye Lobegeiger, Dominic Valdez, Martin J. Kainz, Reconciling the role of organic matter pathways in aquatic food webs by measuring ...

More information: Ossi Keva et al, The role of land use in terrestrial support of boreal lake food webs, Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58505-y ...

University of British Columbia. "Extreme rainfall events cause top-heavy aquatic food webs." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 9 July 2020. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2020 / 07 / 200709085310.htm>.

Oil spill impacts may perturb entire food webs Oil spills not only have a direct impact on species and habitats, but may also set off a cascade of perturbations that affect the entire food web ...

Aquatic food web tied to land: Some fish are made out of maple leaves A distant relative of shrimp, zooplankton are an important food source for fish and other aquatic animals. Long characterized ...

Many of us learned about the aquatic food web in high school. Our teachers explained that aquatic plants form the base of the food web, with the energy they create supporting aquatic life, from ...

While the recent inclusion of parasites into food-web studies has highlighted the role of parasites as consumers, there is accumulating evidence that parasites can also serve as prey for predators.

Aquatic food webs Food webs are detailed maps of who eats whom, and therefore how big an effect a change in one species has on the other species in the community. Humans have profound effects on the ...