"Overall, the total weight of animals in species-rich ecosystems ... and ecosystem functioning in dynamic food webs, Nature Communications (2016). DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12718 ...

Soil food webs describe the community of organisms living all or part of their lives in the soil and their complex living system interacting with other substances such as carbon and nitrogen.

This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web. Phytoplankton are microscopic floating plants that feed on sunlight. These are in turn eaten by animals called zooplankton ...