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Ecosystems: Energy, Patterns, and Disturbances - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Can further classify:
      - • Producers:–Autotrophs: produce organic compounds to
      - survive–Chemotrophs: producers use inorganic molecules
      - (e.g. H2S) to gain energy for survival
        
        • Consumers:–Heterotrophs: consume organic materials to
      - survive
- - - - Succession: transition of one biotic community
        
        to another
        
        • Primary vs. secondary
        
        Succession:
        
        transition of one
        
        biotic community to
        
        another
        
        Primary: area
        
        lacking plants and
        
        soils is initially
        
        invaded by plants
        
        when soil forms
        
        Secondary: area
        
        cleared by
        
        disturbance and
        
        then reinvaded by
        
        plants and animals
        
        from other
        
        ecosystems
    - - Aquatic: soil particles eroded from land or plant
- - - - •Disturbances are similar to those noted at ecosystem
    - - •What 2 factors most control biomes?
    - - •Called “microclimates”