Figure 1: Producer
Figure 2: Consumer
Figure 3: Recycler/saprophytes
In nature, the flow of energy occurs in a closed efficient loop. This loop preserves the laws of conservation of energy “energy is not created or destroyed, but converted from one form to another”. The source of this energy is the sun whose energy trickles down to the consumers and back into the earth in an entropic fashion. Looking at an ecosystem from a physics and chemical perspective, the first and second law of thermodynamics is obeyed and preserved (first law of thermodynamics) (second law of thermodynamics). This utilization of
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