Talk:Trophic dynamics
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The presentation on this page looks overly academicized. It lacks a description of energy tranfer efficiency between trophic levels and contains a lot of material on production levels in different biomes that really is irrelevant to the concept of energy metabolims in the environment. Really needs an ecologist to along and fix it up. A Primack
3 trophic levels is the usual case, but 4 and 5 are found as well; 6 levels exist but is really exceptional. Anthère
- Including information on the maximum number of levels found would be good - I believe 6 is basically the limit, but I haven't got any source for this right now. Richard001 07:25, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
I think that this page should probably be condensed and the links improved. Much of what is on this page is irrelevant, and much of the rest is better covered on other pages, including trophic pyramid, primary production, food web, soil food web, biodiversity. Justinleif 18:12, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
I think this page would be much more useful if a section were devoted to humans, showing that it is much more efficient (and healthy) for humans to eat plants than to eat animals. User:BillShurtleff 24 April 2007
- That's a good idea. The topic is well covered on the environmental vegetarianism page, but it would be good to mention it and link to it here, or perhaps on the trophic pyramid, which discusses the efficiency of transfer between trophic levels. This is probably not the place to discuss the health benefits of vegetarianism, but definitely the efficiency argument. I am considering revising this page (primarily by shortening it and improving the links), and will include your idea if I get around to it. Cheers Justinleif 20:12, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
There's something wrong with this phrase: "The only known exception to this is in deep sea hydrothermal vents chemosynthetic archaea form the base of the food chain).", namely, the lack of an opening parenthesis. Could someone fix this, please? ;) -- Anonymous Coward —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.139.134.186 (talk) 14:15, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
