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Ecosystem Structure and Energy Flow
Environmental Applications · Chapter 3 · 2: Basic Ecology
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- Biotic and abiotic components of an ecosystem
- Food chains, food webs and trophic levels
- Flow of energy: the sun as primary source; linear flow of energy versus cyclic flow of nutrients
- Ecological niche, habitat and microhabitat
- Succession and regeneration: primary and secondary succession; regeneration of forests and of fossil fuels