Key Terms Related to Ecosystems
This text highlights key terms important for the study of ecology of ecosystems, energy flow through ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles.
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