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trophic transfers

trophic transfers is the plural of trophic transfer.

Meaning of trophic transfer

Noun

trophic transfer (countable and uncountable, plural trophic transfers)

  1. The transference of materials, such as chemicals, contaminants, plastics, etc., through different trophic levels of the food web.
    • It is also commonly observed that predators of seabirds ingest high quantities of plastics via trophic transfer.2021, Alice A. Horton, Isobelle Blissett, Impacts of Plastic Pollution on Freshwater Aquatic, Terrestrial and Avian Migratory Species in the Asia and Pacific Region, Convention on Migratory Species...

Questions about trophic transfers

What is trophic transfers the plural of?
Trophic transfers is the plural of trophic transfer.

Words near trophic transfers in the dictionary

  1. trophic hormone
  2. trophic hormones
  3. trophic level
  4. trophic levels
  5. trophic transfer
  6. trophic transfers
  7. trophical
  8. trophically
  9. trophicity
  10. trophied
  11. trophies

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