GEO 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Banff National Park, Insular Biogeography, Biogeochemical Cycle
5 Dec 2016
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Yellowstone national park was the first one and covers 2. 2m acres. Photosynthesis: plants converting sun and co2 into glucose and o2. Cellular respiration: is a process where plants break down glucose to release stored energy. Net primary production: annual yield of useful energy produced by the ecosystem, in grams/square meter/year. Biomass: dry weight of living organic matter in an ecosystem within a designated surface area. Net production increases rapidly with increasing precipitation, but levels off at higher levels. Food web: organizes the ecosystem into levels through which energy flows as the organism moves up. Carbon cycle: biogeochemical cycle in which carbon moves through the biosphere. Biome: any large recognizable assemblage of plants and animals in functional interaction between its environments. Ecological niche: is the sum total of an organism"s use of abiotic/biotic resources in the environment. Evolution: is a process of change over time and space. Invertebrates: more than 90% don"t have a backbone.
