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- DictionaryFood web/fo͞od web/
noun
- 1. a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
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A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Ecologists can broadly define all life forms as either autotrophs or heterotrophs, based on their trophic levels, the position that they occupy in the food web. To maintain their bodies, grow, develop, and to reproduce, autotrophs produce organic matter from inorgan... Wikipedia