#43 Energy & Material flow in Ecosystems | Ecology and Environment

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This lecture examines the flow of energy and materials through ecosystems, explaining how energy from the sun is captured by primary producers and transferred through food webs to higher trophic levels. It introduces the concepts of gross primary productivity and net primary productivity, which measure the rate of energy capture and biomass production by plants. The lecture emphasizes the importance of understanding ecological efficiency, the proportion of energy transferred from one trophic level to the next, for assessing the sustainability of ecosystems.
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