Biomass & availability of energy http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/102/ecosystem.html Overview The main concepts we are trying to get across in this section concern how energy moves through an ecosystem. If you can understand…
Ecosystems & Energy-flow http://www.econguru.com/fundamentals_of_ecology/ecosystems.html Ecosystems An ecosystem extends a community by involving also the abiotic environment, that is, the physical and chemical environment. Energy flow and nutrient cycling(cycling of chemicals)…
Secondary production Secondary production is the generation of biomass of heterotrophic (consumer) organisms in a system. This is driven by the transfer of organic material between trophic levels, and represents the quantity of new tissue created through…