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Rise Of The Mesopredator🎵

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  • Food Web: the feeding relationships between animals that determine how energy and nutrients are spread throughout an ecosystem.
  • Trophic Level: a hierarchical level in an ecosystem made up of organisms that share the same function in the food web.
  • Apex predator: the animals at the top trophic level that feed on animals and organisms below them.
  • Mesopredator: a member of a mid-ranking trophic level that preys on animals and organisms in lower trophic levels and occasionally gets eat by apex predators.
  • Mesopredator Release: an ecological phenomenon in which mesopredators rapidly grow in population once apex predators are removed from an ecosystem.
  • Trophic Cascade: a series of dramatic changes in an ecosystem often triggered by mesopredator release.


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