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| A type of community in the PN, but started to appear in the Puget sound area in the 1990s. It effected the areas quickly, and colonized. |
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| a mosaic of connected ecosystems |
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| what is landscape ecology? |
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| arrays of ecosystems and how they are arranged in a geographic region |
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| what is ecosystem ecology? |
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| energy flow and chemical cycling among the various biotic and abiotic components |
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| What are deep sea hydrothermal vents? |
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| an ecosystem under the ocean |
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| What do vent animals use to survive? |
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| chemoautotrophic symbioses |
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| What is chemoautotropic symbioses? |
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| use hydrogen sulfide to sugars (chemical energy) |
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| why is symbiosis with bacteria important? |
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| it provides a source of energy, instead of sunlight |
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