Land and Agriculture
Environmental Governance
Definition(s)
A sequence of organisms on successive trophic levels within a community, through which energy is transferred by feeding; energy enters the food chain during fixation by primary producers (mainly green plants) and passes to the herbivores (primary consumers) and then to the carnivores (secondary and tertiary consumers). (Source: GEMET/LBC)
Hierarchy
Broader: food
In other languages
French
chaîne alimentaire
Russian
пищевая цепь
Spanish
cadena alimentaria
Chinese, Simplified
食物链
Arabic
السلسلة الغذائية
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Stockholm Convention | 1 decision3 documents |