Saprotrophic fungi
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gets C from ecosystem, degrades organic matter, important for lignin
degradation and SOM decomposition
SOM chemically affects
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Cation exchange capacity, water holding capacity, nutrients (reservoir of
slow N)
,an organism capable of both aerobic and anaerobic metabolism?
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facultative anaerobe
Tardigrades
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abundant in mosses and
lichens, pioneer species, eats algae, bacteria, plant cells and mesofauna,
called water bears, moss piglets
adhesion
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attraction of water molecules for solid surfaces (ex: soil or glass)
-Adversary is someone DIFFERENT from you
water moving from one texture to another
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, ALWAYS moves from big to small pores easily (sand/soil); saturation must
occur BEFORE going from small to big pores (soil/sand)
protozoa
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mobile, single-celled bacterial predators; amoeba, ciliate, flagellates;
moist, well-aerated surface soils
what is the WEQ (wind erosion equation)?
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E= ICKLV
E = annual soil loss
• I = erodability factor
• C = climate
• K = surface roughness
• L = field width
• V = vegetation
primary producers (autotrophs)
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algae, cyanobacteria, plants
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gets C from ecosystem, degrades organic matter, important for lignin
degradation and SOM decomposition
SOM chemically affects
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Cation exchange capacity, water holding capacity, nutrients (reservoir of
slow N)
,an organism capable of both aerobic and anaerobic metabolism?
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facultative anaerobe
Tardigrades
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abundant in mosses and
lichens, pioneer species, eats algae, bacteria, plant cells and mesofauna,
called water bears, moss piglets
adhesion
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attraction of water molecules for solid surfaces (ex: soil or glass)
-Adversary is someone DIFFERENT from you
water moving from one texture to another
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, ALWAYS moves from big to small pores easily (sand/soil); saturation must
occur BEFORE going from small to big pores (soil/sand)
protozoa
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mobile, single-celled bacterial predators; amoeba, ciliate, flagellates;
moist, well-aerated surface soils
what is the WEQ (wind erosion equation)?
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E= ICKLV
E = annual soil loss
• I = erodability factor
• C = climate
• K = surface roughness
• L = field width
• V = vegetation
primary producers (autotrophs)
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algae, cyanobacteria, plants
