An autotroph is an organism that can convert abiotic sources of energy into energy stored in organic compounds, which can be used by other organisms....

of nutrition (trophic levels), the other being autotrophs (auto = self, troph = nutrition). Autotrophs use energy from sunlight (photoautotrophs) or oxidation...

Photoautotrophs are organisms that can utilize light energy from sunlight and elements (such as carbon) from inorganic compounds to produce organic materials...

anabolic processes of ATP synthesis (in heterotrophs) or biosynthesis (in autotrophs). The electron or hydrogen donors are taken up from the environment. Organotrophic...

A chemotroph is an organism that obtains energy by the oxidation of electron donors in their environments. These molecules can be organic (chemoorganotrophs)...

chain is a linear network of links in a food web, often starting with an autotroph (such as grass or algae), also called a producer, and typically ending...

responsible for primary production are known as primary producers or autotrophs, and form the base of the food chain. In terrestrial ecoregions, these...

of obtaining energy, some 99% of flowering plants are photosynthetic autotrophs, deriving their energy from sunlight and using it to create molecules...

September 1982). "Microbiology of thiobacilli and other sulphur-oxidizing autotrophs, mixotrophs and heterotrophs". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal...

(previously The Producers), an English supergroup Producer (biology) or autotroph, an organism that synthesizes energy-rich organic compounds The Producers...

different population. A consumer is a heterotroph and a producer is an autotroph. Like sea angels, they take in organic moles by consuming other organisms...

broadly categorized as autotrophs (or primary producers), heterotrophs (or consumers), and Detritivores (or decomposers). Autotrophs are organisms that produce...

phototroph abundance, from September 1997 to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary production potential...

or trophic level, is used in ecology to broadly classify organisms as autotrophs or heterotrophs. This is a non-binary classification; some organisms (such...

phototroph abundance, from September 1997 to August 2000. As an estimate of autotroph biomass, it is only a rough indicator of primary production potential...

have led to symbiogenesis that gave rise to eukaryotes and eukaryotic autotrophs such as green and red algae. The earliest predators were microorganisms...

the molecular energy currency for the cell. Phototrophs can be either autotrophs or heterotrophs. If their electron and hydrogen donors are inorganic compounds...

lepidopteran species have formed a network of trophic relationships between autotrophs and heterotrophs, which are included in the stages of Lepidoptera larvae...

CODH/acetyl-coenzyme A synthase in LUCA could be compatible not only with being an autotroph but also with life as a mixotroph or heterotroph. Weiss et al. 2018 reply...

without being continuously replenished by the photosynthetic activities of autotrophs such as cyanobacteria, chloroplast-bearing algae and plants. A much rarer...

formal-grammar concept Primary production, the production of new biomass by autotrophs in ecosystems Productivity (ecology), the wider concept of biomass production...

recycling organic matter back into a simpler form that plants and other autotrophs may absorb once again. This cycling of matter is known as the biogeochemical...

Aeroplankton Algaculture Algal mat Algal nutrient solutions Artificial seawater Autotrophs Biological pump Diel vertical migration Dimethylsulfoniopropionate f-ratio...

discover the phenomenon of chemosynthesis. Primary nutritional groups Autotroph Heterotroph Photosynthesis Movile Cave Julian Chela-Flores (2000): "Terrestrial...

within any food web, with the lowest level being the primary producers (or autotrophs) such as plants and algae that convert energy and inorganic material into...

plausible, almost all closed ecological systems to date are based on an autotroph such as green algae. A closed ecological system for an entire planet is...

closely related to the family Thioalkalibacteraceae of halophilic obligate autotrophs with distinct morphological and genomic features. Kelly, Donovan P.; Wood...

that obtain nutrients by consuming the carbon of other organisms, while autotrophs are organisms that produce their own nutrients from the carbon of inorganic...

molecules as their source of electrons to support growth; some species are autotrophs. The genus Thiobacillus was previously considered to be a member in this...

organic molecules as a source of both carbon and energy. In contrast, autotrophs may use inorganic materials as a source for both, such as inorganic chemical...