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    The document discusses several nutrient cycles that occur in ecosystems, including: - The carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and hydrologic cycles, which describe how key nutrients like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and water move between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems. - Major nutrients like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are cycled continuously between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. - Nutrients are absorbed by plants and animals, and returned to the environment through decomposition, helping fuel primary production and maintain healthy ecosystem functioning.

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    The document discusses several nutrient cycles that occur in ecosystems, including: - The carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and hydrologic cycles, which describe how key nutrients like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and water move between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems. - Major nutrients like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are cycled continuously between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. - Nutrients are absorbed by plants and animals, and returned to the environment through decomposition, helping fuel primary production and maintain healthy ecosystem functioning.

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    The document discusses several nutrient cycles that occur in ecosystems, including: - The carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and hydrologic cycles, which describe how key nutrients like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and water move between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems. - Major nutrients like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are cycled continuously between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. - Nutrients are absorbed by plants and animals, and returned to the environment through decomposition, helping fuel primary production and maintain healthy ecosystem functioning.

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    The document discusses several nutrient cycles that occur in ecosystems, including: - The carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and hydrologic cycles, which describe how key nutrients like carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and water move between biotic and abiotic components of ecosystems. - Major nutrients like carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen are cycled continuously between living and non-living parts of ecosystems. - Nutrients are absorbed by plants and animals, and returned to the environment through decomposition, helping fuel primary production and maintain healthy ecosystem functioning.

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    Nutrients cycle

    The cyclic flow of nutrient between the biotic and abiotic components is knows as nutrients cycle or biogeochemical cycles
    Nutrients producers, food chain,consumers and decomposer

    Nutrients cycle
    Major Nutrients C, H, O, N are cycled again and again between and abiotic components of the ecosystem.

    Hydrological cycle Carbon cycle Nitrogen cycle Phosphorous cycle

    Hydrological cycle

    Hydrological cycle

    Movement of water in cyclic manner is known as hydrological cycle

    Carbon cycle

    Carbon cycle
    Carbon basic components organic compounds Present biotic components Eg: carbohdrate, protiens, fat, aminoacids.

    Carbon cycle
    Carbon present in atmosphere CO2
    Plant during photosyenthis CO2 used. CO2 dead matter returned microorganisms.

    Nitrogen cycle

    Nitrogen cycle
    Nitrogen is the most abundant element in our planets atmosphere. Approximately 78% of the atmosphere is comprised of this important element

    Nitrogen cycle
    Nitrogen Fixation There are two main ways nitrogen is 'fixed': Fixation by Lightning The energy from lightning causes nitrogen (N2) and water (H2O) to combine to form ammonia (NH3) and nitrates (NO3). Precipitation carries the ammonia and nitrates to the ground, where they can be assimilated by plants.

    Nitrogen cycle
    Biological Fixation About 90% of nitrogen fixation is done by bacteria. Cyanobacteria convert nitrogen into ammonia and ammonium. Ammonia can be used by plants directly. Ammonia and ammonium may be further reacted in the nitrification process.

    Nitrogen cycle
    Nitrification 2 NH3 + 3 O2 - > 2 NO2 + 2 H+ + 2 H2O 2 NO2- + O2 -> 2 NO3 Aerobic bacteria use oxygen to convert ammonia and ammonium. Nitrosomonas bacteria convert nitrogen into nitrite (NO2-) and then nitrobacter convert nitrite to nitrate (NO3-). Plants utilize the nitrate as a nutrient. Animals obtain nitrogen by eating plants or plant-eating animals.

    Nitrogen cycle
    Ammonification When plants and animals die, bacteria convert nitrogen nutrients back into ammonium salts and ammonia. This conversion process is called ammonification. Anaerobic bacteria can convert ammonia into nitrogen gas through the process of denitrification: NO3- + CH2O + H+ -> N2O + CO2 + 1 H2O Denitrification returns nitrogen to the atmosphere, completing the cycle.

    Phosphorous cycle

    Phosphorous cycle
    The phosphorus cycle is long and slow, but it is an important part of the environment. It helps plants grow, and is used by farmers to fertilize them. When animals eat the plants, they absorb phosphates.

    Phosphorous cycle
    When the animals die, their body decays and the phosphorus is absorbed into the soil, where it re-enters plants. What isnt absorbed by plants ends up in rock, and may stay there for millions of years, slowly being released as the rocks weather.

    Phosphorous cycle
    The Phosphorus cycle has no involvement in the atmosphere, because it does not naturally form in gaseous forms.

    Phosphorous cycle
    Phosphorous usually enters the hydrosphere by the phosphate salt rocks found on the ocean floor. As the water erodes them away, the phosphorous escapes. Marine organisms take some of the phosphorus particles in order to live and grow

    Phosphorous cycle
    Phosphorous is presented in the form of rocks and soil. Phosphates go down to the bottom of the ocean and forms rocks over million of years. Phosphates enters the soil when plant and animal matter decompose, the cycle repeats.

    Phosphorous cycle
    Phosphorous is used for organisms to build DNA, RNA, and ATP. Phosphate is in plants, which the herbivores eat, which the herbivores are eaten by the carnivores. Than phosphorus is released back into the soil by the herbivores and carnivores waste.

    Food web

    Food web

    PYRAMID OF NUMBERS
    Shows the number of organisms at each trophic level per unit area of an ecosystem. Represents number of individual organisms present in each tropic levels The trophic level of an organism is the position it occupies in a food chain

    Pyramid of Numbers
    Pyramid of numbers displays the number of individuals at each level.
    1 owl 25 voles 2000 grass plants

    PYRAMID OF BIOMASS
    Represents the total amount of biomass(weight of biological material) present in each tropic levels.

    Biomass Pyramids
    Displays the biomass at each trophic level.

    PYRAMID OF ENERGY
    Represents the amount of energy present in each tropic levels. Rate of energy flow and productivity at each tropic level.

    PYRAMID OF ENERGY

    Forest ecosystem

    Grass land ecosystem

    Desert ecosystem

    Aquatic ecosystem

    ATP - Adinosine Tri Phosphate DNA - Dioxyribo Nucleic Acid RNA - Ribo Nucleic Acid

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