what are food webs
A food web (or food cycle) is the natural interconnection of food chains and generally a graphical representation (usually an image) of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Another name for food web is a consumer-resource system. Sink web-one or more node(s), all of their prey, all the food that these prey eat, and so on. 2  Community (or connectedness) web-a group of nodes and all the connections of who eats whom. 3  Energy flow web-quantified fluxes of energy between nodes along links between a resource and a consumer.