It is home to an intricate food web of mosquito larvae, midges and bacteria, many of which can survive only in this unique habitat.

它是一个由蚊子幼虫、蠓和细菌组成的复杂食物网的家园，它们当中有许多只能在这个独特的栖息地生存。

Even if the new population is of a different species, it can approximately fill the niche vacated by the extinct population and keep the food web intact.

即使新的种群属于不同物种，它也可以大致填补已灭绝种群空出的生态位，保持食物网的完整。

The complexity of the food web is thus greatly simplified.

这样，错综复杂的食物网就大大简化了。

They include disruption to the Marine food web and effects on the world's carbon cycle.

它们包括对海洋食物链破坏和对全球碳循环的影响。

The extinction of key species could have cascading effects throughout the food web.

关键物种的灭绝可能通过食物链产生级联效应。

This is a healthy, robust species that sits near the top of the complex Antarctic food web.

这个健康、强大的物种位于复杂的南极食物链的顶端。

Phytoplankton productivity is the base of the food web, and all life in the sea depends on it.

浮游植物的产量是食物链的基础，海洋中的所有生物都有赖于此。

The bugs sustain not only the plant, but an intricate food web of bacteria, plankton and invertebrates.

这些怪物不仅供养着植物，而且是由细菌、浮游生物和无脊椎动物组成的一个复杂的食物网。

If enough insects lay eggs on the road instead of in the water, the entire food web can be disrupted.

如果有足够多的昆虫在公路上而不是在水中产卵，那么整个食物链都可能被扰乱。

Daniel Sigman: Algae require nitrogen to grow, and their bodies, in turn, fuel the rest of the ocean food web.

丹尼尔·西格曼：海藻生长过程中需要氮，而海藻本身为海洋食物链中的其他生物提供养分。

But big fish in deeper waters might also be affected if entire species were lost at the bottom of the food web.

但是，如果食物网底层的所有生物都消失的话，深海的大鱼也会受到影响。

You might not think of plants as dangerous, but in this case they are threatening nature's delicate food web.

你可能不认为植物是有危险的，但在这种情况下，他们正在微妙的威胁着大自然的食物网。

This is, after all, what is happening in other places, though usually the changes start at the apex of the food web.

毕竟，这种情况在某些地方正在发生，尽管这种变化通常开始于食物链的顶端。

As these creatures continue to arrive in great Numbers, said Goldstein, they might be altering the ocean's food web.

戈尔茨坦表示，随着越来越多的生物迁居远海，海洋食物网将发生改变。

So it just depends where on the food web they eat and as you go higher up the food web, more toxin gets concentrated.

所以这取决于鲸鱼捕食的动物在食物链中的位置。越在顶层的捕食者摄入的毒素越多。

Those transfers included parasites, which cause rashes, and the Asian clam, which altered the entire food web in San Francisco Bay.

运送来的生物包括爆发繁殖的寄生生物，还有威胁整个旧金山港食物网的亚洲蛤。

The BP spill also is altering the food web by providing vast food for bacteria that consume oil and gas, allowing them to flourish.

而BP的原油泄漏还会让以石油为食的细菌大量繁殖，这会进一步影响食物链。

The microscopic plants that form the foundation of the ocean's food web are declining, reports a study published July 29 in Nature.

7月29日发表在自然杂志的一篇研究报告称，构成海洋食物链基础的微生植物正在减少。

Those invasive species have a large population, and they rend apart the native food web. They disturb an already stressed community.

这些入侵物种是一个大的群体，他们撕裂了本地食物网并扰乱本已稳固的生物群落。

These shifts in species composition may be benign, or they may result in a cascade of negative consequences throughout the Marine food web.

这些物种组成的转变可能是良性的，也有可能导致整个海洋食物网的一系列消极后果。

Since corals provide habitat and food sources for many other denizens of the deep, this could have a profound effect on the Marine food web.

因为珊瑚给好多别的深海栖居者提供栖息地和食物来源，这将对海洋食物网有个深远的影响。

He explained that right now, along more than 100 miles of the Gulf coastline, the oil is harming tiny organisms at the very base of the food web.

他说，100多英里海湾海岸线上的微生物正遭受油污危害，这些微生物处在食物链的最底层。

Soil nema todes are the most abundant metazoan which have various types of life-history and feeding habits and play a key role in soil food web.

线虫作为土壤中数量最丰富的后生动物，其生活史和取食类型多样，在生态系统中发挥着重要作用。

Soil nematodes are the most abundant metazoan, which have various types of life-history and feeding habits, and play a key role in soil food web.

线虫作为土壤中数量最丰富的后生动物，其生活史和取食类型多样，在生态系统中发挥着重要作用。

"You're going to change the base of the food web," he said. "going ahead with experiments like these without knowing what's up the chain is foolhardy."

“你们的行为将彻底摧毁食物链”他说，“不顾及对食物链的影响，只顾一味进行这样的实验是相当愚蠢的。”

Yet the prey can maintain their numbers by growing fast, reproducing fast and eating not just the next victim below them in the food web but also algae.

另外这些猎物可能通过快速生长、快速繁殖和不仅吃它们下级食物链上的生物而且吃海藻，来维持它们的数量。