• 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...
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    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...
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    Plant nutrition (category Biology and pharmacology of chemical elements)
    constituent or metabolite. This is in accordance with Justus von Liebig's law of the minimum. The total essential plant nutrients include seventeen different...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    Diseconomies of scale Economies of scale Gold plating (project management) Learning curve Experience curve effects Liebig's Law of the minimum Marginal value...
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  • ecological processes: Carrying capacity Biological competition Liebig's law of the minimum Niche differentiation Abiotic component Biotic component Community...
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    Alexander Mitscherlich (chemist) (category Chemists from the Kingdom of Prussia)
    the "sum of two exponential processes." A historian of plant science wrote in 1942: A working model of the soil: Liebig's Law of the Minimum was the formulation...
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    saprotroph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saprotrophic nutrition /sæprəˈtrɒfɪk, -proʊ-/ or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular...
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    element of some firearms cartridge cases Liebig's law of the minimum Reverse salient This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Bottleneck...
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  • 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...
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    Algonquian peoples (category Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands)
    this practice kept the population down, with some invoking Liebig's law of the minimum.[citation needed] The southern Algonquians of New England relied...
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    superpredator, 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...
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    technique Critical chain project management Liebig's law of the minimum List of project management software List of project management topics Main path analysis...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Myco-heterotrophy (category Parasites of fungi)
    symbiotic relationship between certain kinds of plants and fungi, in which the plant gets all or part of its food from parasitism upon fungi rather than...
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  • 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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  • by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. These molecules can be organic (chemoorganotrophs) or inorganic (chemolithotrophs). The chemotroph...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Carnivore (redirect from Beast of prey)
    because most member species in the group have a carnivorous diet, but the similarity of the name of the order and the name of the diet causes confusion. Many...
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    forecasting Gordon Arthur Riley Land Surface Model (LSM version 1.0) Liebig's law of the minimum Mathematical biology Population dynamics Population ecology Rapoport's...
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  • 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...
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    functionally, or as a source for later catabolic processes (e.g. in the form of starches, sugars and fats). All phototrophs either use electron transport...
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    the occurrence in the equilibrium of two or more distinctly different phenotypes within a population of a species, in other words, the occurrence of more...
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  • chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect living organisms and the functioning of ecosystems. Abiotic factors and the phenomena associated with...
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    is the mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time. Biomass can refer to species biomass, which is the mass of one...
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    instantaneously "choose" the most efficient route, where it will have the highest probability of arriving at its destination in the minimum possible time. Because...
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