Liebig's law of the minimum, often simply called Liebig's law or the law of the minimum, is a principle developed in agricultural science by Carl Sprengel...

Minimum viable population (MVP) is a lower bound on the population of a species, such that it can survive in the wild. This term is commonly used in the...

success. The further elaboration on the theory of tolerance is credited to Ronald Good. Points out the second limitation of Liebig's law of the minimum - that...

constituent or metabolite. This is in accordance with Justus von Liebig's law of the minimum. The total essential plant nutrients include seventeen different...

articulated a "law of physiological relations". It was compared to the law of diminishing returns in 1942, when Liebig's law of the minimum and the limiting...

ecological processes: Carrying capacity Biological competition Liebig's law of the minimum Niche differentiation Abiotic component Biotic component Community...

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or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter...

this practice kept the population down, with some invoking Liebig's law of the minimum.[citation needed] The southern Algonquians of New England relied...

show the biomass or bioproductivity at each trophic level in an ecosystem. A pyramid of energy shows how much energy is retained in the form of new biomass...

is based on Liebig's Law of the Minimum, which states that growth is controlled not by the total amount of resources available, but by the scarcest resource...

predator, is a predator at the top of a food chain, without natural predators of its own. Apex predators are usually defined in terms of trophic dynamics, meaning...

by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. These molecules can be organic (chemoorganotrophs) or inorganic (chemolithotrophs). The chemotroph...

fungi grow as a branching network of hyphae. While bacteria are restricted to growing and feeding on the exposed surfaces of organic matter, fungi can use...

consumer and the base of the web. The mean chain length of an entire web is the arithmetic average of the lengths of all chains in the food web. The food chain...

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molecules. The activity of detritivores are the reason why we do not see an accumulation of plant litter in nature. Detritivores are an important aspect of many...

bioamplification or biological magnification, is the increase in concentration of a substance, e.g a pesticide, in the tissues of organisms at successively higher levels...

which case it would be located in the first level of the food chain above the producers. Some carnivorous plants, like the Venus flytrap, are classified as...

one trophic level is generally only 10% of the net production at the preceding trophic level (the Ten percent law). Due to non-predatory death, egestion...

requirements derive from the consumption of animal tissues (mainly muscle, fat and other soft tissues) whether through hunting or scavenging. The technical term...

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protein, fat, and fiber, and metabolize the nutrients and energy of the sources absorbed. Often, they have the ability to incorporate food sources such...

convert on average only about 10% of the chemical energy in their food to their own organic tissue (the ten-per cent law). For this reason, food chains rarely...

theory relates to the selection of combinations of traits in an organism that trade off between quantity and quality of offspring. The focus on either an...

the biological conversion of one or more carbon-containing molecules (usually carbon dioxide or methane) and nutrients into organic matter using the oxidation...

hydrolytic enzymes. Liebig's law of the minimum – Growth is limited by the scarcest resource Nutrient density – the proportion of any array of a single nutrient...

richness is the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region. Species richness is simply a count of species, and...

Marine waters cover more than 70% of the surface of the Earth and account for more than 97% of Earth's water supply and 90% of habitable space on Earth. Seawater...