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  2. Ecological pyramid - Wikipedia

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    Pyramids of energy are normally upright, but other pyramids can be inverted (pyramid of biomass for marine region) or take other shapes (spindle shaped pyramid). Ecological pyramids begin with producers on the bottom (such as plants) and proceed through the various trophic levels (such as herbivores that eat plants, then carnivores that eat ...

  3. Energy flow (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    A food pyramid and a corresponding food web, demonstrating some of the simpler patterns in a food web. A graphic representation of energy transfer between trophic layers in an ecosystem. Energy flow is the flow of energy through living things within an ecosystem. [1]

  4. Biomass (ecology) - Wikipedia

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    A biomass pyramid shows the amount of biomass at each trophic level. A productivity pyramid shows the production or turn-over in biomass at each trophic level. An ecological pyramid provides a snapshot in time of an ecological community. The bottom of the pyramid represents the primary producers . The primary producers take energy from the ...

  5. Trophic level - Wikipedia

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    This is called an energy pyramid. The energy transferred between levels can also be thought of as approximating to a transfer in biomass, so energy pyramids can also be viewed as biomass pyramids, picturing the amount of biomass that results at higher levels from biomass consumed at lower levels. However, when primary producers grow rapidly and ...

  6. Ecology - Wikipedia

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    Ecological trophic pyramids are typically one of three kinds: 1) pyramid of numbers, 2) pyramid of biomass, or 3) pyramid of energy. [ 5 ] : 598 A trophic level (from Greek troph , τροφή, trophē, meaning "food" or "feeding") is "a group of organisms acquiring a considerable majority of its energy from the lower adjacent level (according ...

  7. Marine food web - Wikipedia

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    Energy pyramids, however, will always have an upright pyramid shape if all sources of food energy are included, since this is dictated by the second law of thermodynamics." [ 196 ] [ 197 ] Most organic matter produced is eventually consumed and respired to inorganic carbon .

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  9. Ecosystem ecology - Wikipedia

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    Flowing of energy and cycling of matter at the ecosystem level are often examined in ecosystem ecology, but, as a whole, this science is defined more by subject matter than by scale. Ecosystem ecology approaches organisms and abiotic pools of energy and nutrients as an integrated system which distinguishes it from associated sciences such as ...