ECOSYSTEM
IMPORTANT
TERMS:
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Aboriculture:
Cultivation and management of individual specimens of ornamental trees.
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Agroecosystem:
Anthropogenic or manmade ecosystem, basically agricultural fields.
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Biogeochemicals
(Biogenetic Nutrients): The elements provided by
the earth to the living organisms.
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Biogeochemical
Cycle: Movement or circulation of biogenetic nutrients
through the living and non-living components of the biosphere or any ecosystem.
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Biotic
Community: A group of different populations inhabiting in a
common environment and interacting with one another.
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Biotic
Succession: The change in biotic communities in an
orderly sequence in an area resulting in establishment of stable or climax
community.
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Canopy:
The
part of woodland or forest community that is formed by the trees.
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Coldest
Place: Antartic with air temperature of -880C.
Second coldest is Dhar (India) with temperature of -720C.
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Detritivores:
Detritus feeding invertebrates which breakdown detritus into small pieces.
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Detritus:
Dead plant parts and animal remains.
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Ecological
Efficiencies: The
ratio between the energy assimilated over the energy available between two
trophic levels.
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Ecosystem:
A segment of nature consisting of communities of living beings and physical
environment which interact and exchange materials between them.
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Food
chain: The transfer of energy from one trophic level to
the next trophic level through a series of organisms with repeated eating and
being eaten.
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Food
Web:
A network of food chains, which are interconnected at various trophic levels.
So as to form a number of feeding connections amongst different organisms of an
ecosystem.
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