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food cycleNahrungskreislauf (ger.)

  • A system of natural relationships by which organisms in a community depend on each other for food. (OED)
    nutrition
    1881

    The Food Cycle. The mineral kingdom is the food supplier to the vegetable kingdom.

    Aveling, E.B. (1881). Biological Discoveries and Problems: 87.

    1923

    Most of the scavenging animals [in the Arctic] live on decaying plants, and are, therefore, practically equivalent to herbivores in the food cycle.

    Summerhayes, V.S. & Elton, C. (1923). Bear Island. J. Ecol. 11, 216-33: 231.

    1926

    Der Nahrungskreislauf im Wasser

    Thienemann, A. (1926). Der Nahrungskreislauf im Wasser. Verh. Deutsch. Zool. Ges. 31, 29-79.

    1927

    The herbivores are usually preyed upon by carnivores, which get the energy of the sunlight at third-hand, and these again may be preyed upon by other carnivores, and so on, until we reach an animal which has no enemies, and which forms, as it were, a terminus in this food-cycle. There are, in fact, chains of animals linked together by food, and all dependent on the long run upon plants. We refer to these as "food-chains," and to all the food-chains in a community as "food-cycle."

    Elton, C. (1927). Animal Ecology: 56.

    1941

    food-cycle dynamics

    Lindeman, R.L. (1941). Seasonal food-cycle dynamics in a senescent lake. Amer. Midl. Nat. 26, 636-73.