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Summary Of: Ecosystem ecology

Ecosystem ecology examines physical and also biological structures and examines how these ecosystem characteristics interact with each... A major focus of ecosystem ecology is on functional processes... and management thus ecosystem ecology provides a powerful framework for identifying ecological mechanisms that interact with global environmental problems... This article will describe the context of ecosystem ecology and provide an overview of the mechanisms that maintain ecosystem structure and function... Ecosystem ecology is an inherently interdisciplinary field of study... Ecosystem ecology approaches organisms and abiotic pools of energy and nutrients as an integrated system which distinguishes... Ecosystem ecology forms the mechanistic basis for regional or global processes encompassed by landscape... Ecosystem ecology is philosophically and historically rooted in terrestrial ecology... ecosystem ecology has emerged from important biological studies of plants... decomposition models is an important research area of ecosystem ecology because this process is closely tied to nutrient supply and the overall capacity of ecosystems... Ecosystem ecology plays an important role in understanding and adapting to the most pressing current environmental problems... Ecosystem ecology provides the basic science needed to avoid degradation and to restore ecosystem processes that provide...

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Figure 1. A riparian forest in the White Mountains, New Hampshire (USA). | | biotic | abiotic | ecosystems | science | chemicals | bedrock | soil | plants | animals | primary productivity | biomass | decomposition | trophic | forage | fiber | fuel | water | climate | disturbance | global warming | forest | stream | fish | insects | algae | trees | herbivores | predators | deer | coyote | communities | biodiversity | populations | organisms | nutrients | energy | biogeochemistry | hydrology | Figure 3. Energy and matter flows through an ecosystem, adapted from the Silver Springs model. H are herbivores, C are carnivores, TC are top carnivores, and D are decomposers. Squares represent biotic pools and ovals are fluxes or energy or nutrients from the system. | | Eugene Odum | Howard T. Odum | food web | species | succession | terrestrial | aquatic | marine | human | biomass | forestry | agriculture | fisheries | greenhouse gases | carbon dioxide | atmosphere | public health | fertilizer | Gulf of Mexico | green revolution | developed | developing countries | Net primary productivity | Figure 4. Seasonal and annual changes in ambient carbon dioxide (CO2) concentration at Mauna Loa Hawaii (Atmosphere) and above the canopy of a deciduous forest in Massachusetts (Forest). Data show clear seasonal trends associated with periods of high and low NPP and an overall annual increase of atmospheric CO2. Data approximates of those reported by Keeling and Whorf and Barford. | | Carbon | cellular respiration | Mauna Loa | Hawaii | Decomposition | nitrogen | lignin | exponential | Figure 5. Dynamics of decomposing plant litter (A) described with an exponential model (B) and a combined exponential-linear model (C). | | decomposer | proteins | sugars | lipids | nutrient | frass | Central American | Biogeochemistry | Community ecology | Landscape ecology | Systems ecology | Oecologia | v | d | Systems | systems science | Systems categories | Conceptual systems | Physical systems | Social systems | Systems theory | Systems science | Systems scientists | Systems | Biological system | Complex system | Complex adaptive system | Conceptual system | Cultural system | Database management system | Dynamical system | Economic system | Ecosystem | Formal system | Global Positioning System | Human anatomy | Information systems | Legal systems of the world | Living systems | Systems of measurement | Metric system | Multi-agent system | Nervous system | Nonlinearity | Operating system | Physical system | Political system | Sensory system | Social structure | Solar System | Systems art | Chaos theory | Complex systems | Control theory | Cybernetics | Scientific holism | Sociotechnical systems theory | Systems biology | System dynamics | Systems ecology | Systems engineering | Systems psychology | Systems science | Systems theory | Russell L. Ackoff | William Ross Ashby | Béla H. Bánáthy | Gregory Bateson | Richard E. Bellman | Stafford Beer | Ludwig von Bertalanffy | Murray Bowen | Kenneth E. Boulding | C. West Churchman | George Dantzig | Heinz von Foerster | Jay Wright Forrester | George Klir | Edward Lorenz | Niklas Luhmann | Humberto Maturana | Margaret Mead | Donella Meadows | Mihajlo D. Mesarovic | Howard T. Odum | Talcott Parsons | Ilya Prigogine | Anatol Rapoport | Claude Shannon | Francisco Varela | Kevin Warwick | Norbert Wiener | Categories | Ecology | Soil science | Systems ecology |
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