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The analysis of ecosystems has recently received the increasing attention of investigators as they attempt to characterize the functional dynamics of natural systems by quantifying their component processes and the interconnections of these processes. The ecosystem concept implies that an understanding of the processes and their interactions can provide the ability to predict changes in ecosystem behavior resulting from changes imposed on those processes. While many attributes of ecosystems can be characterized, all are inextricably related to the carbon and mineral element metabolism by organisms composing that system.
Research supported by the Eastern Deciduous Forest Biome US-IBP, funded by the National Science Foundation under Interagency Agreement AG-199, 40-193-69 with the Atomic Enery Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Contribution No. 111 from the Eastern Deciduous Forest Biome, US-IBP.
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Reichle, E., McBrayer, J.F., Ausmus, S. (1975). Ecological energetics of decomposer invertebrates in a deciduous forest and total respiration budget. In: Vaněk, J. (eds) Progress in Soil Zoology. Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1933-0_31
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