food chain collapse
Trophic cascade failure
Food chain collapse is the breakdown of an ecosystem's feeding relationships, typically triggered when a key species disappears or declines dramatically.
When predators, prey, or primary producers fail, the disruption cascades through interconnected species: Scientists warn that insect decline could trigger food chain collapse.
The term appears in discussions of climate change, overfishing, and mass extinction events.
- ecosystemInterconnected organisms and surroundings
- food webInterconnected predator-prey relationships
- extinctionComplete vanishing of a species
- predatorOrganism that consumes others
- preyAnimal being hunted
starvation · biodiversity · mass extinction · trophic · cascade · apex predator · habitat · decimation · plankton · apex · keystone · die-off · overfishing · pollinator · bee colony · famine · dead zone · web
- wildlife threatsbiodiversity loss, extinction, habitat loss, poaching, species extinction
- extinctionmass extinction, dodo, extinct, extinction event, extinction rate
- ecological threatsbiodiversity loss, climate change, extinction, habitat loss, mass extinction
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