  We put forward a framework to study the dynamics of a chain of interacting
quantum particles affected by individual or collective multi-mode environment,
focussing on the role played by the environmental quantum correlations over the
evolution of the chain. The presence of entanglement in the state of the
environmental system magnifies the non-Markovian nature of the chain's
dynamics, giving rise to structures in figures of merit such as entanglement
and purity that are not observed under a separable multi-mode environment. Our
analysis can be relevant to problems tackling the open-system dynamics of
biological complexes of strong current interest.
