Ecosystems and Sustainability
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- Created on: 14-02-13 14:16
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- Ecosystems and Sustainability
- Ecosystems
- Habitat: The place where the organisms live
- Abiotic Factors
- Biotic Factors
- Niche: The exact role of an organism in its environment
- Population: All the members of a species in the same place at the same time who can breed with each other
- Community: All the populations of different species who live in the same place at the same time and can interact.
- Population
- Population growth
- Lag Phase
- Growth Phase
- Stationary Phase
- Death Phase
- Interspecific Competition
- Predation/Prey
- Intraspecific Competition
- Predation/Prey
- Population growth
- Habitat: The place where the organisms live
- Energy Transfer
- Measuring Efficiency of Energy Transfer
- Pyramids of Biomass
- Pyramids of energy
- Pyramids of energy
- Gross Primary Productivity
- The rate which plants convert light energy into chemical energy
- KJ/MJ per m2 per annum
- KJ/MJ per m2 per annum
- The rate which plants convert light energy into chemical energy
- Net Primary Productivity
- The rate of production of new biomass available for consumption by heterotrophs
- NPP = GPP - R
- The rate of production of new biomass available for consumption by heterotrophs
- Pyramids of Biomass
- Manipulating Energy Transfer
- Improving Primary Productivity
- Greenhouses
- Pesticides
- Disease Resistant Strains of Crops
- Increased light intensity and longer hours of sunlight
- Less competition
- Improving Secondary Productivity
- Antibiotics
- Restricted movement
- High temperatures
- Selective breeding to produce breeds with faster growth rates
- Improving Primary Productivity
- Measuring Efficiency of Energy Transfer
- Succession
- Gradual change in a community over time resulting in a climax community
- Primary Succession
- Studying succession
- Belt Transect
- Quadrat
- Tape Measure
- Percentage cover
- Percentage frequency
- Studying succession
- Secondary succession
- Primary Succession
- Studying succession
- Belt Transect
- Quadrat
- Tape Measure
- Percentage cover
- Percentage frequency
- Studying succession
- Primary Succession
- The Nitrogen Cycle
- Biological Nitrification
- Rhizobium
- Legumes
- Biological Nitrification
- Rhizobium
- Legumes
- Leghaemoglobin
- Nitrogen Reductase
- N2 + 6H --> 2NH3+
- Nitrogen Reductase
- Leghaemoglobin
- Nitrogen Reductase
- N2 + 6H --> 2NH3+
- Mutualistic Relationship
- Legumes
- Nitrification
- Chemoautotrophs
- Nitrosomonas
- Nitrobacter
- Nitrosomonas
- Free living in the soil
- Decomposition/Putrefaction
- Chemoautotrophs
- Rhizobium
- Leghaemoglobin
- Biological Nitrification
- Mutualistic Relationship
- Legumes
- Nitrification
- Chemoautotrophs
- Nitrobacter
- Free living in the soil
- Nitrobacter
- Decomposition/Putrefaction
- Chemoautotrophs
- Rhizobium
- Denitrification
- Biological Nitrification
- Ecosystems
- Conservation
- Coppicing
- Biodiversity
- Pollarding
- Light Intensity
- Biodiversity
- Coppicing
- Light Intensity
- Rotational Coppicing
- Standards
- Economics
- Clear Felling
- Soil Erosion
- Coppicing
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