Ecosystems and Restoration Ecology
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| 2801512270 | Ecosystem | All organisms in a given area and the abiotic factors with which they interact; involves energy flow and chemical cyling | 0 | |
| 2801514134 | Law of Conservation of Mass | Matter cannot be created or destroyed | 1 | |
| 2801514373 | Primary Producers | Autotrophs, usually photosynthetic, who create sugars to use as food | 2 | |
| 2801516121 | Primary Consumers | Herbivores who eat producers | 3 | |
| 2801516356 | Secondary Consumers | Carnivores that eat herbivores | 4 | |
| 2801516783 | Tertiary Consumers | Carnivores that eat carnivores | 5 | |
| 2801517540 | Detritivore (Decomposer) | Heterotrophs that gain energy from detritus | 6 | |
| 2801519654 | Primary Production | Amount of light energy converted to chemical energy by autotrophs during a given time period | 7 | |
| 2801520764 | Gross Primary Production | Total primary production in an ecosystem (i.e amount of glucose produced during photosynthesis) | 8 | |
| 2801521103 | Net Primary Production | GPP minus the energy used by primary producers for cellular respiration (i.e. biomass that is added to the plant which consumers can now eat) | 9 | |
| 2801523481 | Net Ecosystem Production | Measure of total biomass accumulated in a given time period. GPP - the total respiration of all organisms in the system | 10 | |
| 2801527174 | Limiting Nutrient | Element that must be added for production to increases | 11 | |
| 2801529072 | Eutrophication | Process of increasing the nutrients in lakes and thus decreases oxygen and clarity | 12 | |
| 2801530342 | Light and nutrients | Limits of primary production in aquatic ecosystems | 13 | |
| 2801530559 | Temperature and moisture | Limits of primary production in terrestrial ecosystems | 14 | |
| 2801531504 | Secondary Production | Amount of chemical energy in a consumer's food that is converted to their own new biomass in a period of time | 15 | |
| 2801532476 | Net Secondary Production | The gain by consumers in energy or biomass per unit time remaining after allowing for respiratory losses (R). | 16 | |
| 2801534719 | Production Efficiency | Percent of energy stored in assimilated food which is not used for respiration |  | 17 |
| 2801535526 | Trophic Efficiency | Percent of production transferred from one level to the next, only about 10% | 18 | |
| 2801539386 | Biogeochemical Cycles | Cycling of nutrients involving both biotic and abiotic factors | 19 | |
| 2801543926 | Carbon Cycle | Key processes in this cycle involve photosynthesis and cellular respiration. |  | 20 |
| 2801547740 | Phosphorous Cycle | Key processes include weathering, leaching, and decomposition/ excretion |  | 21 |
| 2801551116 | Nitrogen Cycle | Key processes include dentrification, ammonification, nitrification, and fixation |  | 22 |
| 2801580097 | Nitrogen fixation | Conversion of N2 into forms of nitrogen that can be used by organisms | 23 | |
| 2801582174 | Nitrification | Process by which bacteria oxidizes NH4 into nitrite and then nitrate | 24 | |
| 2801583709 | Denitrification | Bacteria releases nitrogen back into the air | 25 | |
| 2801584032 | Bioremediation | Using organisms like prokaryotes, fungi, or plants, to detoxify polluted ecosystems | 26 | |
| 2801585536 | Biological Augmentation | Adding organisms to speed up succession of ecosystem | 27 | |
| 2909305021 | Evapotranspiration | Amount of water transpired by plants and evaporated from landscape | 28 |
