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...

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

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...

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...

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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among the hardest-hit nations in the global famine that ensued, and the experience is said to have shaped Liebig's later work. Due in part to Liebig's innovations...

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

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

saprotroph in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Saprotrophic nutrition /sæprəˈtrɒfɪk, -proʊ-/ or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular...

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...

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...

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...

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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or type of organism, or even to a specific capacity of those organisms. The definition of "decomposer" therefore centers on the outcome of the decomposition...

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combined. Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in the water column of the world's oceans, and the second largest component of biomass after prokaryotes...

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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...

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...

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

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

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...

instantaneously "choose" the most efficient route, where it will have the highest probability of arriving at its destination in the minimum possible time. Because...

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...

with the marine biologist Umberto D'Ancona, who was courting his daughter at the time and later was to become his son-in-law. D'Ancona studied the fish...

the food chain and success of organisms. Lastly, the abundance of introduced species in an ecotone can reveal the type of biome or efficiency of the two...

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