BILD 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Cellular Respiration, Permanent Wilting Point, Water Cycle

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Found in water, soil, and atmosphere: d: nutrients can be inorganic, trapped in rocks. Trophic efficiency: only a fraction of production (energy) is transferred from one trophic level to the next. % is how efficient the transfer is: each level loses energy through cellular respiration. Things that are eaten + things not eaten = npp. Things not eaten are eaten by detritivores, returning nutrients back to bottom level for primary producers: average trophic efficiency is 10, limits the length of a food chain. Takes only 25 gallons of water to produce. 1 lbs of wheat: the further down you eat on the food chain, the better, tuna are top predators, so there is very little tuna biomass in the ocean (much less than the demand) Nitrogen cycle: major reservoir is in atmosphere as n2. In form that most living things cannot use.

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