Fig. 1: Feedback diagram of life environment interactions in our model system. | Communications Earth & Environment

Fig. 1: Feedback diagram of life environment interactions in our model system.

From: The evolution of biogeochemical recycling by persistence-based selection

Fig. 1

Environmental substance pools (circles) have a positive influence (solid arrow-lines) on the growth and biomass of the biota (squares). Environmental substance levels are negatively influenced (dashed arrow-lines) by biotic assimilation and positively influenced by abiotic input fluxes (diamonds) as well as by-products of producer phenotypes, the latter creating the potential for net recycling.

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