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• Food Web: the feeding relationships between animals that determine how energy and nutrients are spread throughout an ecosystem.
• Trophic Level: a hierarchical level in an ecosystem made up of organisms that share the same function in the food web.
• Apex predator: the animals at the top trophic level that feed on animals and organisms below them.
• Mesopredator: a member of a mid-ranking trophic level that preys on animals and organisms in lower trophic levels and occasionally gets eat by apex predators.
• Mesopredator Release: an ecological phenomenon in which mesopredators rapidly grow in population once apex predators are removed from an ecosystem.
• Trophic Cascade: a series of dramatic changes in an ecosystem often triggered by mesopredator release.

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