Material Cycles

in Ecosystem
Lecture no. 3
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Today’s topic
 Classification of Ecosystem

 Biogeochemical Cycle

 Water cycle
 Carbon cycle
 Nitrogen cycle
 Oxygen cycle
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Ecosystem

Abiotic Biotic
Components Components

Producers Consumers Decomposers

Climatic Edaphic
(Autotrophs) (Heterotrophs) (Saptrotrophs)

Primary Consumers
Rain Soil (Herbivores)

Secondary
Light pH Consumers (Primary
Carnivores)

Tertiary Consumers
Wind Minerals (Large Carnivores)

Quaternary
Temperature Topography Consumers
(Omnivores)
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MATERIAL CYCLES IN
ECOSYSTEMS
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Biogeochemical Cycle
As energy flows through the ecosystem there is also a
constant flow of matter.

Living beings take up several nutrients from their abiotic

environment and when they die they are returned to the
environment.

This cyclic movement of nutrient material between the

biotic and abiotic environment is called “Biogeochemical
Cycle”.
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Biogeochemical Cycle
 Water cycle
 Carbon cycle
 Oxygen cycle
 Nitrogen cycle
 Sulfur cycle
 Phosphorus cycle
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Water Cycle or Hydrological Cycle

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Carbon Cycle
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Nitrogen Cycle
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Oxygen Cycle
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