BIOL 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Ecosystem Ecology, Photosynthesis, Rubisco
20 Apr 2016
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Ecosystem ecology integrates all the sub-discipline of ecology. An ecosystem contains all the organisms in a community as well as the abiotic environment with which the organisms interact (textbook). An ecosystem contains the interacting systems made up of all living and nonliving objects in a defined volume of space (weathers et al. Main goal of ecosystem ecology: understand how energy and materials (e. g. nutrients, contaminants) move between organisms and their environment. Ecosystem ecology focuses on the pools and fluxes of energy and materials. Materials resides in compartments (a define space in nature). A compartment contains a given quantity of material called a pool. A pool can be biotic (e. g. vegetation) or abiotic pool (e. g. A pool can be biotic (e. g. vegetation) or abiotic pool (e. g. rock, atmosphere). The rate of exchange between compartments is call the flux rate. Flux can be driven by biotic or abiotic processes.
