A functional unit consisting of living things in a given area, non-living chemical and physical factors of their environment, linked together
through nutrient cycle and energy flow.
OCG Factors
ONE-WAY ENERGY
Nutrient Cycling
Gravity
components
Abiotic
Anotações:
Water, Air, Nutrients, Solar energy, Rocks, Heat
Biotic
Anotações:
– Plants
– Animals
–Microbes
–Dead organisms
–Waste products of dead organisms
LIFE COMP(HAt-BiG)
Anotações:
Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Geosphere
Bioshere
lithosphere-layer of life
Thermodynamic Laws
no loss E
lost as HEAT
sustainability life
meaning : f(x) in unit control
Cycle
Hydrologic-TEP
transpiration
evaporation
precipitation
Carbon-FAP
Fossil
Aerobic resperation
Photosysthesis
Phosphorus_NA,L
Anotações:
• Does not cycle through the
atmosphere
• Obtained from terrestrial rock formations
• Limiting factor on land and in
freshwater ecosystems
• Biologically important for
producers and consumers
NOT in atmosphere
Limiting Factor - nutrient
Nitrogen-FAND
(de)nitrification
N2 -> NH4+
Anotações:
nitrification
NO3- -> N2
Anotações:
denitrification
Ammonification
NH4+ -> NO3-
Nitrogen fixation
org N -> NH4 +
Energy
Trophic level - PCDD
Anotações:
As energy flows through ecosystems in food chains and webs, the amount of chemical
energy available to organisms at each succeeding feeding level decreases.
Food Chain & Food Web
Anotações:
• Food chain
–Sequence of organisms, each of which serves as a source of food for the next
• Food web
–Network of interconnected food
chains
–More complex than a food chain
Release nutrients from the dead bodies of plants and animals
Detritive
Anotações:
Feed on the waste or dead
bodies of organisms
Production and Consumption of Energy
Anotações:
• Photosynthesis
• Carbon dioxide + water + solar
energy --> glucose + oxygen
• Aerobic respiration
• Glucose + oxygen --> carbon
dioxide + water + energy
Biomass
Ecological efficiency - (-10%)
Pyramid of energy flow
Technical term
Anotações:
Troph = feed , grow , nutrient
Herb = grass
carn = flesh
omni = all
auto = direct from within
heter = difffrence
vore = swallow
percolation = refers to the movement and filtering of fluids through porous materials.
guano = excrete from birds
dolomite = translucent mineral