Ecology of Ecosystems

Ecology of Ecosystems

This text discusses food chains and food webs and research into ecosystem dynamics (ecosystem experimentation and modeling).

Topics

  • acid rain
  • analytical model
  • apex consumer
  • assimilation
  • biogeochemical cycle
  • biomagnification
  • biomass
  • chemoautotroph
  • conceptual model
  • dead zone
  • detrital food web
  • ecological pyramid
  • ecosystem
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • equilibrium
  • eutrophication
  • fallout
  • food chain
  • food web
  • grazing food web
  • gross primary productivity
  • holistic ecosystem model
  • hydrosphere
  • mesocosm
  • microcosm
  • net consumer productivity
  • net primary productivity
  • net production efficiency
  • NPE
  • nonrenewable resource
  • primary consumer
  • primary producer
  • residence time
  • resilience
  • ecological
  • resistance
  • secondary consumer
  • simulation model
  • subduction
  • tertiary consumer
  • trophic level
  • trophic level transfer efficiency
  • TLTE
  • ecological resilience
  • ecological resistance
  • ecology of ecosystems
  • ecosystem ecology
  • ecosystem experiment
  • ecosystem model
  • ecosystem modeling
  • ecosystem structure
  • ecosystems
  • types of ecosystems