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Land and Agriculture
Environmental Governance

Definition(s)

A sequence of organisms on successive trophic levels within a community, through which energy is transferred by feeding; energy enters the food chain during fixation by primary producers (mainly green plants) and passes to the herbivores (primary consumers) and then to the carnivores (secondary and tertiary consumers). (Source: GEMET/LBC)

Hierarchy

Broader: food
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