Organisms in a community are linked through what they eat and what eats them. A food chain is a single pathway connecting a producer with several levels of consumers. In a typical marine food chain, dinoflagellates convert energy from sunlight into food through photosynthesis and store it in their tissues. Copepods feed on dinoflagellates and incorporate this energy into their own tissues. The energy is transferred to sunfish when they feed on copepods, to small sharks that feed on sunfish, and to large sharks that feed on small sharks. The feeding relationships in an ecosystem consist of many food chains interconnected into a network called a food web.