BIOL 230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Tropical And Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Isopoda, Filter Feeder
Document Summary
Services provided by ecosystems and their biodiversity that help sustain human life. Such as pollination, water and air quality, mitigation of droughts and floods, food. When the quality of a habitat is decreased for most but not all of the species. The conversion of habitats that inhibits the use of the habitat by wildlife into land for another use, such as farming. Species that are introduced by accident or on purpose to an area which the species never historically found in. A species or group of species that are unique to one area or region. Nutrient cycling is never perfect- it has inputs and outputs. These in/outputs are small relative to the amount of nutrients within the ecosystem. There is a gradient from the poles to the equator. The physical, chemical and biological transformation and movement of elements and thecycling of nutrients within an ecosystem. The total amount of element found within the physical or biological component of an ecosystem.
