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| 5712355276 | Ecosystem | Consists of all the organisms living in a community, as well as the abiotic factors with which they interact | 0 | |
| 5712375435 | Law of conservation of mass | States that matter cannot be created or destroyed | 1 | |
| 5712388447 | Detritivores | Decomposers that consume nonliving organic matter | 2 | |
| 5712401896 | Primary production | In an ecosystem is the amount of light energy converted to chemical energy by autotrophs during a given time period | 3 | |
| 5712420794 | Gross primary production | Total primary production | 4 | |
| 5712426182 | Net primary production | GPP minus energy used by primary producers for respiration | 5 | |
| 5712440073 | Standing crop | The total biomass of photosynthesis autotrophs at a given time | 6 | |
| 5712454880 | Limiting nutrient | The element that must be added for production to increase in an area | 7 | |
| 5712471194 | Eutrophication | A process by which nutrients, particularly phosphorus and nitrogen, become highly concentrated in a body of water, leading to increased growth of organisms such as algae or cyanobacteria. | 8 | |
| 5712483979 | Actual evapotranspiration | The water annually transpired by plants and evaporated from a landscape | 9 | |
| 5712497961 | Secondary production | An ecosystem is the amount of chemical energy in food converted to new biomass during a given period of time | 10 | |
| 5712514999 | Productions efficiency | The fraction of energy stored in food that is not used for respiration | 11 | |
| 5712525457 | Trophic efficiency | The percentage of production transferred from one trophic level to the next 5%-20% | 12 | |
| 5712542322 | Turnover time | A ratio of the standing crop biomass to production | 13 | |
| 5712558114 | Biogeochemical cycles | Nutrient circuits in ecosystems involve biotic and abiotic components | 14 | |
| 5712573411 | Green world hypothesis | Proposes several factors that keep herbivores in check | 15 | |
| 5712640467 | Hubbard Brook Experiment Forest | Has been used to study nutrient cycling in a forest ecosystem since 1963 | 16 | |
| 5712654423 | Critical load | The amount that plants absorb without damaging the ecosystem | 17 |
