trophic

IPA: trˈoʊfɪk

Of or pertaining to nutrition.
(ecology) Describing the relationships between the feeding habits of organisms in a food chain.
(physiology) Of or pertaining to growth.

Examples of "trophic" in Sentences

Each segment of the food web within which organisms take in food in the same manner is called a trophic level.
The target cells then release a flood of chemicals, called trophic factors, that strengthen the incipient connections.
What he calls a trophic cascade is a reduction in apex predators leading to a higher abundance of planktivorous fish that feed on zooplankton biomass.
It's what scientists call a trophic cascade, when one animal, usually a top predator, has a cascading top-down effect on different levels of the food chain.
The process by which the apex beasts affect the rest of the ecosystem is called a 'trophic cascade', whereby their loss has a consequence on everything beneath them.
Introduced plants are a major threat to the native vegetation especially on islands where certain trophic levels may not be occupied leaving an opening, which can be readily occupied by an introduced species.
These interactions among producers and the organisms that consume and decompose them are called trophic interactions, and are composed of trophic levels in an energy pyramid, with most energy and mass in the primary producers at the base, and higher levels of feeding on top of this, starting with primary consumers feeding on primary producers, secondary consumers feeding on these, and so on.