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This article, as of 20 August 2011, is one of the more accessed articles on Wikipedia, yet as of this date it must also rank among the more embarrassing Wikipedia articles. It needs rewriting. --Epipelagic (talk) 14:19, 19 August 2011 (UTC)Reply
I bet that 90% of users that search for "food chain" or "trophic chain" are in fact looking for the food or trophic web concept instead, only that our mind is used to consider it a chain. It has happened to me. There may be some interest in keeping this article alive, but I propose to merge it to "food web", and redirect "food chain" to it.--Auró (talk) 12:30, 30 June 2013 (UTC)Reply
One animal in a food chain can be in many other food chains
"Tertiary consumer" redirects here, but that doesn't make any sense, because this page has no mention of tertiary consumers. 50.4.35.41 (talk) 20:33, 6 May 2012 (UTC)Reply
I have done a bit of cleanup, but haven't actually added anything new. I think the article still needs a good deal of work, and is probably an important enough subject to merit a better effort. I'm not sure about the accuracy of all of the information either. For example, the claim that life could not exist without the sun is essentially correct, but this section also seems to imply that food chains are not possible without photosynthesis. It is my understanding that some ecosystems (such as those around deep sea hydrothermal vents) do not rely on solar energy, but still represent food chains, with producers relying on chemosynthesis. [Edit: I just noticed that this was explained in the next section] Also, the claim that the loss of a keystone species can lead to a mass extinction seems a bit extreme. NCBioTeacher (talk) 06:59, 23 July 2020 (UTC)Reply
This is claimed in the article. Seems pertinently untrue since there has to be a producer at the base of every complete food chain. Propose rewrite. Evlshout (talk) 07:05, 11 June 2014 (UTC)Reply
Isn't there a "food cycle"? This would be closed when plants consume the remains of dead animals.Grushenka (talk) 04:45, 12 June 2021 (UTC)Reply
I added more information about the energy transfer of the food chain and added the concept of food chain efficiency. Tuj54739 (talk) 16:32, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
The food chain alway starts with a producer and it ends with territory consumer. A food chain shows how each living thing gets food. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.207.119.122 (talk) 05:18, 7 May 2020 (UTC)Reply
Hello! Where is human in food chain? --Nimelik (talk) 22:22, 9 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Or humans are mammals that are outside of biological food chain? −−Nimelik (talk) 21:06, 17 April 2021 (UTC)Reply
Food chains and food webs are practically the same thing. Food web is also a much more developed article, cites way more sources (not to mention better sources) and is overall just a better article than this one. Lyricca (talk) 19:45, 7 November 2022 (UTC)Reply
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