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5568176786 | Resistance | The measure of how a disturbance can affect an ecosystem is flow of matter of energy and matter | 0 | |
5568176787 | Hubbard brook study | Impact of clear cutting on watersheds | 1 | |
5568176788 | Instrumental value | The economic value of a species | 2 | |
5568176789 | Disturbance | A physical chemical or biological events that changes and ecosystems population composition | 3 | |
5568176790 | Nitrogen fixation | Nitrogen converted to ammonia | 4 | |
5568176791 | Carbon cycle | Photosynthesis and respiration | 5 | |
5568176792 | Deforestation causes | Carbon increase | 6 | |
5568176793 | No gas phase | Phosphorus cycle | 7 | |
5568176794 | Combustion | How carbon enters atmosphere | 8 | |
5568176795 | Erosion | Rock and soil into water | 9 | |
5568176796 | Evapotranspiration | How water enters atmosphere | 10 | |
5568176797 | Community | Group of all different populations in a given area | 11 | |
5568176798 | Population | A group of individuals that belong to the same species | 12 | |
5568176799 | Limiting resource | A resource that population cannot live without | 13 | |
5568176800 | Carrying capacity | Limit to the population sizes sustained by the environment | 14 | |
5568176801 | Density dependent factors | Factors that influence and individuals chance to survive based on population size example amounts of food | 15 | |
5568176802 | Population size (N) | Total number of individuals within a defined area | 16 | |
5568176803 | Intrinsic growth rate | Populations maximum potential growth if there are unlimited resources | 17 | |
5568176804 | Population distribution | How individuals are disbursed examples random clumped uniform | 18 | |
5568176805 | Density independent factors | Affect an individual's chance of survival regardless of population size example fires floods | 19 | |
5568176806 | Leeching | Transport of substances through soil by water | 20 | |
5568176807 | Nitrification | When bacteria produce nitrite then nitrate | 21 | |
5568176808 | Combustion | How carbon enters atmosphere | 22 | |
5568176809 | Photosynthesis | How carbon is removed from atmosphere | 23 | |
5568176810 | Lemonade nutrients | SHNOPS and water (not carbon) | 24 | |
5568176811 | Excretion | How phosphates released on land and in water | 25 | |
5568176812 | Resilience | How they bounce back | 26 | |
5568176813 | Provision | What a ecosystem system provides an example lumber | 27 | |
5568176814 | Population oscillation | R selected species | 28 | |
5568207957 | Assimilation | Plants absorb ammonium | 29 | |
5568215155 | Nitrate | Usable for plants | 30 |