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Food Chains and Food Webs
How are food chian and a food web related?
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Wiki User
April 29, 2008 7:52PM
theyboth show the pathways of energy in an environment
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What is a food chian?

A food chain is a linear sequence of links in a food web starting from species that are called
producers in the web and ends at species that are called
decomposers in the web. A food chain also shows how the organisms
are related with each other by the food they eat. A food chain
differs from a food web, because the complex polyphagous network of feeding relations
are aggregated into trophic species and the chain only follows
linear monophagous
pathways. A common metric used to quantify food web trophic
structure is food chain length. In its simplest form, the length of
a chain is the number of links between a trophic consumer and the
base of the web and the mean chain length of an entire web is the
arithmetic average of the lengths of all chains in a food
web.[1][2]