BIOLOGY 1M03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Abies Balsamea, Primary Production, Rachel Carson

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A biological community plus all of the abiotic factors. External energy: solar energy but also chemical energy. Primary producers: organism that can synthesize their own food. Decomposers: organisms that feed on dead organisms or their waste. Consumers: organisms that feed on other organisms. Npp is the energy invested into generating new tissues. One of the first people that brought the idea of awareness of the environment. Noticed the number of hawks had decreased (prey birds) Trophic levels identify steps in energy transfer. Keystone species are essential to the health and biodiversity of the ecosystem. Energy derived plants are ingested and the energy is used: 80. 7 % maintenance activity, 17. 7% is excreted. Ddt concentration increase 10 million times: ddt in water 0. 000003 ppm, ddt in zooplankton 0. 04 ppm, ddt in small fish 0. 5 ppm, ddt large fish 2 ppm, ddt in fish eating birds 25 ppm. It goes in the adipose or fatty tissue and it stays there.

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