EVSC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4-9: Clearcutting

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Environmental Science
• Course: EVSC 100
• Professor: Christie Spry

Document Summary

We can divide the system into 4 major compartments: the atmosphere consists of gases and small concentrations of suspended particulates and water vapour, rocks and soil consist of insoluble minerals that are not directly available for uptake by organisms, available nutrients, present in chemical forms that are water soluble to some degree, can be taken up by organisms from their environment and contribute to their mineral nutrition, the organic compartment consists of nutrients present within living and dead biomass. Five kingdoms of organisms: monera monerans are the simplest of single celled microorganisms and include bacteria and blue green bacteria, the latter being photosynthetic, protista include a wide range of simple, eukaryotic organisms, comprising both unicellular and multicellular species, fungi consists of yeasts, which are single celled microorganisms, and fungi, which are multicellular and filamentous, plantae plants, which can be separated into 12 divisions in two functional groups.