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Food Webs versus Food Chains

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A food web represents the full network of feeding relationships within a community, capturing real ecosystems better than a linear food chain, since consumers feed at multiple trophic positions.

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A forest food web shows dozens of interconnected links rather than one producer-to-top-predator chain.

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A food chain is a simplified slice of a food web, not a claim energy flows only one path.