Please enable JavaScript.

Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.

Chapter 5 - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Abiotic factors unaltered or can be returned to original state
      - Viable populations formerly inhabiting ecosystem must still exist
    - - World population will increase tremendously over the next half a century
      - N and P cycles raise nutrients in land and water 2 to 3 times
      - 15% more agriculture land
      - Global deforeestation
      - More water diverted
      - We may lose up to 50% of world's biodiversity
- - - - Serotiny - needing fire to grow
      - Resilience - ability of ecosystems to return to normal after disturbance
      - Tipping point - situation is human impacted ecosystem where small action catalyzes major change in system state
- - - - Primary Consumer (10 biomass)
        
        Secondary Consumer (1 biomass)
        
        Tertiary Consumer (1/10 biomass)
        
        Quaternary Consumer (1/100 biomass)
    - - Detriues Food Web
        
        Scavengers
        
        Decomposers
    - - Autotrophs: produce organic compounds to survive
      - Chemotrophs: producers use inorganic molecules to gain energy for survival
    - - Heterotrophs: consume organic materials to survive
    - - Large fish (most biomass)
        
        Small fish
        
        Zooplankton
        
        Phytoplankton (least biomass)