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Dezene Huber 🌻

On the seafloor of the , (a.k.a. ) are the food web apex equivalent of up on the floes.

If I had to make the choice, I'd still rather be quickly eaten by a polar bear than slowly digested by an .

PNAS OA article: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216

News article: globalnews.ca/news/9443656/car

Figure heading: "Schematic representation of the subarctic marine food web. Arrows indicate trophic interaction between species within the pelagic subweb (blue), the benthic subweb (brown), or between different subwebs (green)." Note that the trophic position (TP) of a polar bear is listed as 5 to 6, while that of a sea star is listed as a virtually equivalent 4 to 5.
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Dezene Huber 🌻

@nichni Yes, I agree. The authors did a fantastic job.

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