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Ecosystems and Biomes
Objectives
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After reading Chapter 16 you should be able to:
- Define ecology, biogeography, and the ecosystem, community, habitat, and niche concepts.
- Explain photosynthesis and respiration and derive net photosynthesis and the world pattern of net primary productivity.
- List the abiotic and biotic ecosystem components and relate those components to ecosystem operations and trophic relationships.
- Define succession and outline the stages of general ecological succession in both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
- Define the concepts of terrestrial ecosystem, biome, ecotone, and formation classes.
- Describe 10 major terrestrial biomes and locate them on a world map.
- Relate human impacts, real and potential, to several of the biomes.
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