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What (who) is -trophic - definition

POSITION OF AN ORGANISM IN A FOOD CHAIN
Trophic Level; Trophism; Trophic levels; Tertiary consumer; Mean trophic level; FiB index; Fractional trophic level; Trophic mode
  • The mean trophic level of the world fisheries catch has steadily declined because many high trophic level fish, such as this [[tuna]], have been [[overfished]].
  • Consumer categories]] based on material eaten (plant: green shades are live, brown shades are dead; animal: red shades are live, purple shades are dead; or particulate: grey shades) and feeding strategy (gatherer: lighter shade of each color; miner: darker shade of each color)
  • biomass]].
  • '''First trophic level'''.  The plants in this image, and the [[algae]] and [[phytoplankton]] in the lake, are [[primary producer]]s.  They take nutrients from the soil or the water, and manufacture their own food by [[photosynthesis]], using energy from the sun.
  • Killer whales ([[orca]]) are [[apex predator]]s but they are divided into separate populations that hunt specific prey, such as tuna, small sharks, and seals.

-trophic      
¦ combining form
1. relating to nutrition: oligotrophic.
2. relating to maintenance or regulation of a bodily organ or function, especially by a hormone.
Derivatives
-trophism combining form.
-trophy combining form.
Origin
from Gk trophikos, from trophe 'nourishment'.
Trigeminal trophic syndrome         
MEDICAL CONDITION
Trigeminal trophic ulcer; Trigeminal trophic lesions; Trigeminal trophic lesion
Trigeminal trophic syndrome is a rare disease caused by the interruption of peripheral or central sensory pathways of the trigeminal nerve. A slowly enlarging, uninflammed ulcer can occur in the area that has had trigeminal nerve damage; including but not limited to the cheek beside the ala nasi.
Trophic         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Trophic (disambiguation)
·adj Of or connected with nutrition; nitritional; nourishing; as, the so-called trophic nerves, which have a direct influence on nutrition.

Wikipedia

Trophic level

The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food web. A food chain is a succession of organisms that eat other organisms and may, in turn, be eaten themselves. The trophic level of an organism is the number of steps it is from the start of the chain. A food web starts at trophic level 1 with primary producers such as plants, can move to herbivores at level 2, carnivores at level 3 or higher, and typically finish with apex predators at level 4 or 5. The path along the chain can form either a one-way flow or a food "web". Ecological communities with higher biodiversity form more complex trophic paths.

The word trophic derives from the Greek τροφή (trophē) referring to food or nourishment.

Examples of use of -trophic
1. "These results imply that 20th–century warming, apparently anthropogenic, has already affected lower trophic [nutritional] levels of the California Current," they report.
2. Despite a slew of catas–trophic losses, property–casualty insurers in the US, for the year 2004, posted their first underwriting profit in 26 years, totalling $5 billion, according to the Insurance Services Office (ISO). In its report released in first week of July, ISO says the underwriting results for 2004 reflect a firming in insurance markets that began in mid–1''' and gathered momentum through mid–2002.