Ecosystem Ecology

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2 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Ecosystem Ecology.

• Community respiration — The aggregate rate at which organisms in an ecological community oxidize organic matter and release carbon dioxide over a stated boundary and interval.
• Ecological Efficiency — The fraction of resource production converted into consumer production across a trophic transfer, decomposable into consumption, assimilation, and net-production efficiencies under a declared food-web boundary and common currency.