Animal life hasn’t existed for very long on planet Earth. In the last 500 million years, there have been five mass extinctions, defined as events that wiped out at least …
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Where an ecosystem achieves a steady stable-state(of an ecosystem) where free surplus energy is minimised, where there is maximum entropy production and minimum waste. In such a system, there is …
The largest animals that represent the top of the trophic pyramidThe gradual reduction in energy content, increase in body size and reduction in number of animals, that occurs the higher …
The rate of energyEnergy and nutrients are the same thing. Plants capture energy from the Sun and store it in chemicals, via the process of photosynthesis. The excess greenery and …
Thermoclines are boundaries between gradients of temperature and salinity. The Mixing Layer Depth is usually defined as the depth where it is 0.5°C cooler than the surface temperature, that accounts …
The process, either mathematically or in the human brain, of creating an internal version of something that we can refer to, to better understand how it functions and our place …
Darwin’s theory how species are formed, where those that stand in closest competition with those undergoing beneficial modification and improvement, will go extinct faster. Natural selection is by survival of …
Net gainNet gain is the term used to describe management that doesn’t undermine ecosystems. In theory, a ‘net gain’ is achieved, when an ecosystem starts to restore itself. To achieve …
A substance that contains the raw materials for life. At a chemical level, these are contained inside compounds that are absorbed into the body and essential energy-containing molecules are extracted, …
The study of the physical, chemical and biological properties of the ocean.