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
• 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
• But when the ecosystem shifts, so too does the food web.
  — Allison Chinchar, CNN, 7 May 2022
• Both species play key roles in ocean food webs, from the surface to the seafloor.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 6 June 2019
• More than 200 bird species filled a food web all their own.
  — Boyce Upholt, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Sep. 2022
• 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
• Brine shrimp are part of the foundation of the Great Salt Lake's food web.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2022
• That trickles down through the food web to fish and mammals.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2019
• Fish eaters are the top of the food web and support a valuable fishery.
  — Jason Treat, Magazine, 17 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Invasive species have rewired the Great Lakes food web.
  — 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
• After the natives were planted, the food web took off, the Aoyagis say.
  — Lisa Boone, latimes.com, 14 June 2019
• This galaxy of organisms makes up the base of the oceanic food web.
  — WIRED, 2 Aug. 2023
• This week Jeff and Jonathan delve into the fascinating world of lawn care and the soil food web.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 9 June 2023
• But those marine species are very minor players in the food web.
  — Yereth Rosen, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Nov. 2022
• In the spring, as the ice melts and sunlight hits the water, the sea blooms with phytoplankton, the anchor of marine life and the base of the ocean’s food web.
  — Author: Simon Denyer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Feb. 2020
• In the spring, as the ice melts and sunlight hits the water, the sea blooms with phytoplankton, the anchor of marine life and the base of the ocean's food web.
  — Author: Simon Denyer, Chris Mooney, Anchorage Daily News, 13 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
• 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
• Those impacts would reverberate all the way up the food web to humans, who get the bulk of their DHA from fish.
  — Paige Embry, Scientific American, 17 June 2020
• 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 small school fish are key to the northern Atlantic’s food web and fishing economy.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 18 Jan. 2024
• Losing the phytoplankton to extreme heat, then, assaults the base of the food web.
  — Matt Simon, Wired, 1 Feb. 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
• These tiny crustaceans form the base of the food web and their displacement trickled up the food chain, from herring to salmon to whales and seabirds and pinnipeds.
  — oregonlive, 25 Sep. 2019
• Among native plants, some contribute more to the food web than others.
  — Matthew Cicanese and Erika Reiter, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Apr. 2020
• And three, every animal the researchers found—some that make up the base of the food web in the bay—were loaded with microplastic.
  — Matt Simon, WIRED, 6 June 2019

Last Updated: 28 May 2024