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  2. Marine food web - Wikipedia

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    A food web model is a network of food chains. Each food chain starts with a primary producer or autotroph, an organism, such as an alga or a plant, which is able to manufacture its own food. Next in the chain is an organism that feeds on the primary producer, and the chain continues in this way as a string of successive predators.

  3. Blue whale - Wikipedia

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    However, because blue whales feed low on the food chain, there is a lesser chance for bioaccumulation of organic chemical contaminants. [154] Analysis of the earwax of a male blue whale killed by a collision with a ship off the coast of California showed contaminants like pesticides, flame retardants, and mercury.

  4. Marine biogeochemical cycles - Wikipedia

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    The diagram at the right shows a basic one-box model. The reservoir contains the amount of material M under consideration, as defined by chemical, physical or biological properties. The source Q is the flux of material into the reservoir, and the sink S is the flux of material out of the reservoir.

  5. Blue Whale - AOL

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    “The blue whale is the largest and loudest animal on Earth.” The blue whale is the largest animal on Earth and likely the largest animal ever to have lived. While this ocean mammoth is dubbed ...

  6. Baleen - Wikipedia

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    The whale then pushes the water out, and animals such as krill are filtered by the baleen and remain as a food source for the whale. Baleen is similar to bristles and consists of keratin, the same substance found in human fingernails, skin and hair. Baleen is a skin derivative. Some whales, such as the bowhead whale, have

  7. Human impact on marine life - Wikipedia

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    Arctic food webs are considered simple, meaning there are few steps in the food chain from small organisms to larger predators. For example, pteropods are "a key prey item of a number of higher predators – larger plankton, fish, seabirds, whales". [117]

  8. Despite being the largest animal on the planet, blue whales maintain a life of secrecy, spending their days in the deep, open ocean. The opportunity to see a blue whale comes once-in-a-lifetime ...

  9. Food web - Wikipedia

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    A freshwater aquatic food web. The blue arrows show a complete food chain (algae → daphnia → gizzard shad → largemouth bass → great blue heron). A food web is the natural interconnection of food chains and a graphical representation of what-eats-what in an ecological community.