Ecological interactions usually are portrayed in books and studied over one trophic level (deer eating plants),...
Ecological interactions usually are portrayed in books and studied over one trophic level (deer eating plants), but interactions usually occur over multiple trophic levels? What are multi-trophic interactions and can you describe a few.
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Food chain the process of eating of one organism by the other which is eaten by some other organism and so on. This is the type of interaction between organisms which we see in our textbooks. But in reality, in nature no such simplified food chain occurs. This is because every organism occupy more than one trophic level in a food chain in nature.
Every organism eats more than one type of other organism. This is the reason that one organism can occupy more than one trophic level. This leads to the creation of food web. A food web is a complex interaction between organisms where one organism can eat more than one organisms at lower trophic level and can be itself eaten by more than one organisms at upper trophic level.
Multi trophic interactions are therefore defined as the positioning of an organism at more than one trophic levels in a food web.
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