adverb
- in a manner relating to nutrition or feeding relationships in an ecosystem
Usage: biology; ecology
Examples
- The species are trophically linked through the food web.
- These organisms interact trophically at multiple levels.
- The lake ecosystem is trophically complex.
- Predators and prey are trophically connected.
- The study examined how nutrients move trophically through the system.
- Different species occupy trophically distinct positions.