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🌋 Sunlight vs. Chemosynthesis — Two Deep-Sea Food Webs

Two side-by-side 3D food webs — a sunlit surface ecosystem and a hydrothermal-vent ecosystem — let you cut off each one's own energy source and watch the trophic levels collapse from the base upward, while the other web keeps running untouched.

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⚙ Under the hood

Two side-by-side 3D food webs — a sunlit surface ecosystem built on photosynthesis and a hydrothermal-vent ecosystem built on chemosynthesis — let you cut each one's own energy source independently. Block the sunlight and only the surface web collapses base-up through algae, herbivores and predators; seal the vent's chemical plume and only the vent web collapses through its bacteria, symbiotic tube worms and vent crabs, proving the two food webs run on entirely independent energy currencies.

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