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| Natural home environment of an organism. Meets its needs. |
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| Unpredictable events with a more than 0 likelihood of occurring. |
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| Habitat loss occurs to unsustainable levels before a population goes extinct. We dont know until it is too late. |
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| A relatively discreet event that disrupts the structure of an ecosystem, community, or population |
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| One disturbance event affects another disturbance event |
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| Force per unit area (Measurable) |
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| The resulting impact on the ecosystem of a disturbance |
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| The mean time that it takes to disturb an area equal in size to the study area |
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| The frequency of the disturbance |
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| The biotic portion of a landscape that is left in tact after a disturbance event. |
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| Total photosynthesis (carbon in) of an ecosystem |
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| Total respiration (carbon out) by plants |
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| Total respiration (carbon out) by plants and animals |
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| Movement of production in or out of the ecosystem. |
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| the area of land that drains into a common outlet (single point) |
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| Water runoff over the surface |
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| Water runoff under the surface (underlying geology) |
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| Dissolved substances. Flow from low to high. |
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| Attraction of water to itself and other substances |
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| Overall amount of space in the soil column |
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| the point where plants are no longer able to extract water from the soil. |
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