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1
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What direction does energy flow?

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One direction

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Chemical cycling

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Chemicals cycle within ecosystems

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Ecosystem

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All the organisms in a given area as well as the abiotic factors with which they interact; one or more communities and the physical environment around them.

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Does total amount of energy in ecosystem change?

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No

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Second law of thermodynamics

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Every exchange of energy increases entropy(lack of order in a system) of the universe. Energy conversion are always inefficient, some heat is always lost

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Detritus

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All the nonliving organism material in the ecosystem such as bodies of dead organisms and dead leaves.

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Autotrophs

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Organism that is able to form nutrition organisms substances form simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide

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Heterotrophs

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Organisms deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organism substances

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Herbivores

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Primary consumers, hunted by carnivores

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Secondary consumers

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Also carnivores, hunted by other carnivores

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Detrivore

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Animal whichx feeds on dead organic material, especially plant detritus.
Aka decomposers
Most common, fungi

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Primary production

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The amount of light energy converted into chemical energy in the form of organic compounds

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What happens which primary produces are chemoautotrophs

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Initial energy input is chemical and are the organism compounds synthesized by the microorganism.

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Amount of energy earths atmosphere is struck by

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10^32 joules

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Gross primary production

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Total primary production, amount of light energy converted to chemical energy per unit time.

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Net primary production

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R = total amount of organic carbons that is reprised (Oxidized to CO2) by plants per unit time
NPP = GPP - R_a

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Biomass

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Primary production represents storage of chemical E available to the consumers in the ecosystem

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18
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Most productive ecossytem

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Tropical rain forest

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Light limitation

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Depth of light penetration affects primary production through the photic szone of an ocean.

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Nutrient limitation

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Nutrients limit primary production more than light in most oceans and lakes.

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Limiting nutrient

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Element that must be added to increase production
Iron is a common limiting nutrient. Can stimulate growth of Cyanobacteria that fix additional atmosphere nitrogen.

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Where in oceans is there high primary production

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Areas of upwelling

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Eutrophication in freshwater

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Caused by sewage and fertilizer runoff from farms and lawns.

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Net ecosystem production

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Measure of the total biomass accumulation during that time

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Use of NEP

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Determine if Ecosystem is gaining/losing C overtime
NPP can loose C if heterotrophs release CO2 faster than primary produces can incorporate it to organic compounds.

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Main factors that control PP

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Temperature and moisture

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Low productivity systems

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Hot and dry like deserts or cold and dry like arctic tundra

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Common limiting mineral nutrients

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Nitrogen and Phosphorus

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How do plants increase uptake of limiting nutients?

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-Mutualisms like symbiosis w/ plant roots and N fixing bacteria
- Mycorrhizal association between plant roots and fungi
-Release enzymes/other stuff to soil to increase availability

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Secondary production

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Amount of chemical energy in consumers food that is converted to their own new biomass during a given period

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Assimilation

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Consists of the total energy taken in, not including loss of waste, used for growth, reproduction, and respiration

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Trophic efficiency

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Percentage of production transferred from one trophic level to the next.

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Turnover time

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Amount of time required for replacement by flow-through of the energy or substance of interest contained in the system

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Importance of C

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Forms framework of the organic mulecules essential to all organisms

35
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What removes a lot of CO2

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Photosynthesis

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Importance of N

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Part of amino acids, proteins, and nucleic acids

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Where is N found

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Atmosphere 80% N
soil and sediments

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Importance of P

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constituent of nucleic acids, phospholipids and ATP, also bonds and teeth

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Common form of P used in living organisms

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Phosphate

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Where is P usually found

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Marine sedimentary rock, soil, oceans, organisms

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Decomposers E source

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detritus

42
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Growth of Decomposers controlled by?

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Temperature, moisture, and nutrient availability

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Decomposition in tropical vs Temperate forest

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Tropical is faster, and most nutrient in tree trunk.
Most nutrient in soil in temeprate

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Biomremidiation

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Making land less toxic by removing the toxic metals in land

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Biological augmentation

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Add necessary resources/material into the soil with the help of organisms

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Biogeochemical cycles

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Any of the various chemical cycles, which involve both biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems.

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Reserrvoirs

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Location of chemical element consisting of either organic or inorganic materials that are either available to for direct use by organisms or unavailable as nutrients

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Reservoir of C

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Fossil fules soils, marine sediment, plant/animal biomass. Largest is sedimentary rock like limestone

49
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dentrification

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the microbial process of reducing nitrate and nitrite to gaseous forms of nitrogen, principally nitrous oxide (N2O) and nitrogen (N2

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Assimilation

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Consists of the total energy taken in, not including loss of waste, used for growth, reproduction, and respiration

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Biomass

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Total quantity of weight of organisms in a given area of volume

52
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N Fixation

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N2 taken fro atmosphere and converted into N compounds for other biochemical processes

53
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Ammonification

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\NH4

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