BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Unit, Chemosynthesis, Chemotroph
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Ecosystems: ecosystems consist of all organisms living in community & abiotic factors they interact w/ Predator-prey interaction don"t occur in isolation, but as part of larger community of interacting species (community ecology) Can model interactions based on how energy/nutrients move through the community (modelling trophic structure), which brings in the. Abiotic component: energy flow, chemical/nutrient cycling, 2 processes important in ecosystems, autotrophs (aka primary producers) Flow originates with autotrophs (primary producers) through predator levels (secondary and tertiary consumers: trophic transfer energy, trophic transfer efficiency = (production at trophic level) Energy is lost as it moves between trophic levels n/(production at trophic level n-1: usually measured as energy stored as biomass in each trophic level. This means each trophic level has only 10% of energy available from level it consumes. Energy & nutrient flow: nutrients cycle through ecosystem, consumers eat producers (or other consumers) to gain access to.