In addition to overall enrollment being at a record level, the universityâs main-campus enrollment is at an all-time high of 53,672, which informal tabulations also indicate is the most for any single campus in Texas. Texas A&Mâs main campus enrollment was 50,227 last fall.
The trophic level is a measure of the position of an organism in a food web, starting at level 1 with primary producers, such as phytoplankton and seaweed, then moving through the primary consumers at level 2 that eat the primary producers to the secondary consumers at level 3 that eat the primary consumers, and so on.
The number of steps an organism is from the start of the chain is a measure of its trophic level. Food chains start at trophic level 1 with primary producers such as plants, move to herbivores at level 2, predators at level 3 and typically finish with carnivores or apex predators at level 4 or 5. The path along the chain can form either a one-way flow or a food web.