In the chapter Hooknose, outline the temporal and spatial scales spanned by the processes discussed. These concepts provide the underpinnings for ecosystem management. Sustainable management requires an understanding of these concepts. Energy drives ecosystem processes. Disturbance as a process influences other processes, structures, and functions.
Ecosystems circulate, transform, and accumulate energy through structures.
Definition of a Process Sequence of events or states, one following from and dependent on another, which leads to some outcome. The manner which parts are arrange to form a whole Vertical and horizontal structure of the plant community. Sunlight captured by leaves, stored as chemical energy. Fewer leaves lower biomass production. Climatic fluctuations occur in the Coeur d Alene River Basin varies over decades to centuries.