producers: The producers are at the bottom of the food chain, making their own food through photosynthesis and providing food for all the herbivores (plant-eating animals).
Producers
Plants that perform photosynthesis and provide food to consumers.
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Producers Autotrophic organisms which produce protoplasm using inorganic carbon and energy from the sun.
Publicly owned treatment works (POTW) A municipal or domestic wastewater treatment facility.
Primary producers that obtain their carbon from inorganic sources.
Availability Session
Informal meeting at a public location where interested citizens can talk with EPA and state officials on a one-to-one basis.
Chemical Producers and Distributor Association
CPF
Carcinogenic Potency Factor ...
Learn why the producers and the director wanted to make this film, on page 2.
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Fair Trade An alternative approach to conventional trade that aims to provide higher compensation for farmers and producers in developing countries.
decomposers organisms (such as bacteria and fungi) that break down plant and animal remains into forms once again usable by producers ...
CONSUMPTION Any ecosystem includes both consumers and producers. Plants are 'producers' because they produce food. All animals are consumers, since they consume food in the food chain, produced by the plants. People also fall in the consumer category.
American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM): A nonprofit organization that provides a forum for producers, consumers, and representatives of government and industry, to write laboratory test standards for materials, products, systems, ...
Participatory Guarantee System: a form of "certification" for small organic producers where the produce is vouched for by local stakeholders such as other organic farmers and consumers.
Autotrophic ecosystems have primary producers as a principal component and sunlight has the major initial energy source; etherotrophic ecosystems depend upon preformed organic matter that is imported from autotrophic ecosystems elsewhere.
Detrital-based Ecosystem: primary producers -> detritus -> detritivores -> consumers (predators)
Detritivores: organisms that feed on detritus
Detritus: dead organic material ...
FTF: Fair Trade Federation. And association of fair trade wholesalers, retailers and producers that adhere to social criteria and environmental principles that foster a more equitable and sustainable system of production and trade.
It's a seasonal storage program that financially encourages groundwater producers to turn off their pumping facilities and use MWD imported water to meet their demands, thereby indirectly replenishing the groundwater basin.
Large power plants, wind power generating facilities as well as small power producers (such as photovoltaic farms) feed electrical power into the grid for distribution to users. Electrical grids in the USA are both publicly and privately owned.
The United States and China are the largest producers of wind power in the world.
Power to the people. In the United States, wind energy now produces enough electricity to power more than 9 million homes.
-production for a species varies between areas from year to year
-it is rare for all species in an area to have a bad seed year
-some individuals are particularly good seed producers
-good seed years can not be predicted until flower buds are formed ...
plant tissues or gross primary productivity less respiratory utilization by the producer organism; secondary productivity is the rate of production of organic materials by consumer organisms (animals) that eat plants (which are the primary producers).
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