Specific environmental issues that can be addressed include (1) the relative importance of imports to recycled nutrients in the system, (2) the fate of imported nutrients, (3) the role of each compartment and interaction in recycling and the passage of material through the ecosystem, (4) the importance of each compartment to other compartments (both direct and indirect), (5) the trophic structure of the community and its relationship to harvestable animals, (6) the distribution of positive feedback loops in the system and their importance to flow, and (7) global attributes that can be used to assess the ecosystem as a whole.
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