How to Use trophic in a Sentence

trophic

adjective

• This is, in effect, a trophic shift—the length of the species’ food chain has changed.
  — Wendy Mitman Clarke, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• The effect is known as a trophic cascade, in which the removal of a key species has ripple effects throughout the ecosystem.
  — Steve Winter, National Geographic, 9 Mar. 2018
• Some experts, however, aren’t so sure that a trophic cascade is at work here.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 15 May 2017
• There has been a lot of research done on how removing predators can cause a trophic cascade that can result in a collapse of a system.
  — Jacqueline Cutler, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
• Researchers used the teeth of 13 megalodon sharks and 20 modern sharks to analyze dietary signatures and their trophic levels, which refers to where the animals fit in the food chain, CNN reports.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 June 2022
• This shift has created a trophic mismatch, meaning plants bloom earlier, and insects that eat the plants emerge earlier, while the red knot chicks that eat the insects are hatching too late to feed on them at their peak.
  — National Geographic, 12 May 2016
• This type of indirect interaction where organisms at the top of the food chain affect those at the bottom, or vice versa, is called a trophic cascade—named for the effects that cascade throughout the rungs of the food chain.
  — Sam Zlotnik, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 Aug. 2022
• This indicated that the birds’ food chain had become shorter; somewhere in the birds’ food chain, animals were eating at a lower trophic level.
  — Wendy Mitman Clarke, Smithsonian, 26 Apr. 2017
• His research focuses on trophic cascade, which is the domino effect of habitat loss and ecological crisis caused by changes in the numbers of predators and prey within a food chain.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 5 Nov. 2019
• But normally, these records only cover two trophic levels.
  — National Geographic, 7 Sep. 2016
• Their gradual reestablishment triggered a trophic cascade much like the reintroduction of the Yellowstone wolves had, but for different reasons.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 14 June 2010
• Compared with Yellowstone’s complex and contested wolf dynamic, Voyageurs offers a clear example of what scientists call a trophic cascade: When wolves eat beavers, beavers can’t construct ponds.
  — Ben Goldfarb, Science | AAAS, 13 Nov. 2020
• In Colorado, proponents say reintroduction will create a healthy corridor for the apex predators between Canada and Mexico, and that wolves create a positive trophic cascade for ecosystems.
  — Heather Hansman, Outside Online, 27 Oct. 2020
• As discriminating hunters of their territories’ stragglers, wolves actually keep herds healthy, and structure food webs with wide-reaching ripple effects, called trophic cascades.
  — Josh Adler, National Geographic, 11 Apr. 2019
• In biological circles, this ecological ripple effect is known as a trophic cascade.
  — Brent Crane, Discover Magazine, 12 Mar. 2019
• These include increasing or decreasing prey, changing competitive abilities, shifting feeding rates and altering trophic cascades.
  — Nancy Averett, Scientific American, 18 Nov. 2020
• Since species do not live in isolation, phenological changes can cascade through biological communities through trophic, competitive and mutualistic interactions, according to the study.
  — Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 30 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024