Ecosystem: What are they and how do they work?

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key component of environmental science

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ecology

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science that focuses on how organisms interact with one another and with their nonliving environment of matter and energy

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ecology

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community of organisms that interact with each other and non-living components

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ecosystem

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all the ecosystems present on Earth combined

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ecosystem

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Ecosystem are divided into:

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Terrestrial, Aquatic

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living components of an ecosystem

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biotic

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non-living components of an ecosystem

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abiotic

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ecosystem maintained or created artificially by man

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Artificial Ecosystem

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These ecosystems operate by themselves under natural conditions

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Natural Ecosystem

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Structure of Ecosystem

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composition of biological community, quantity and distribution of non-living material, rage of condition of existence

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structural aspect of ecosystem

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inorganic and organic, climatic regimes, producer and consumers

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functional aspect of ecosystem

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energy cycle, food chains, diversity-interlink ages between organism and evolution

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physical and chemical factors that directly or indirectly affect the living components

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non-living components (Abiotic)

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either producer or consumer

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living components (Biotic)

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Biotic Components

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Producer, Consumer, Decomposers or Detritivores

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Four Types of Consumer

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Primary Consumer, Secondary Consumer, Tertiary Consumer, Quaternary Consumer

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Categories of Producer

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Photoautotrophs, Chemotrophs

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organism capable of synthesizing its own food from inorganic substances using light as an energy source

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Photoautotrophs

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organisms that obtain energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments; can be organic (chemoorganotrophs) or inorganic (chemolithotrophs)

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Chemotrophs

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The flow of energy in the ecosystem

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unidirectional and non-cyclic

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takes place in a unidirectional manner through a single channel of producers to herbivores or carnivores

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Single Channel Energy Flow Model

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interconnected, interlocking pattern of food chain

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Food Web

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process through which ecosystems tend to change over a period of time

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ecological succession

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phenomenon by which community progressively transforms itself until a stable community is formed

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ecological succession

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Two Types of Succession

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Primary Succession, Secondary Succession

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area where life starts from scratch

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Primary Succession

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life starts at a place after the area has lost all the life form existing there

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Secondary Succession

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developed a descripted theory of succession and advanced it as a general ecological concept

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F.E. Clement

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Phases of Clement's Theory of Succession

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Nudation, Migration, Ecesis, Competition, Reaction, Stabilization

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begins with the development of a bare site

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Nudation

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arrivals of propagules

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Migration

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involves establishment and initial growth of vegetation

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Ecesis

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as vegetation established, grew, and spread, various species began to compete for space, light, and nutrients

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Competition

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during this phase, autogenic changes affect the habitat resulting in replacement of one plant to community by another

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Reaction

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development of a climax community

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Stabilization