Trophic Cascades

& Human
Influences
 Do Now

 What are trophic levels and how do these

interact with each other?
Aim

 How do Keystone Species affect Trophic Levels

in an Ecosystem?
 Food Webs &
Modeling

 An illustration on
how food chains and
showing these feeding
relationships among
species in an
ecosystem.
Bottom-Up Control Theory
 States that population size in lower trophic levels (Producers) will affect the population
size of all other organisms on the food web.

 Also called resource-controlled

 Do you believe this explains how population sizes are controlled in a community? Or is
there something else?
 Some Animals are More
Equal than Others: Keystone
Species and Trophic
Cascades

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