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| May 22, 2014 at 19:56 | comment | added | Jay Lemmon | Light access can very easily be a limiting agent, though. Mature forest floors, for instance, have little undergrowth for exactly this reason. In situations where there's an algae bloom, the top of the water is essentially opaque. Yet in most ecosystems (certainly temperate/tropical oceans) the total biomass production of producers is not limited by light but by nutrients. Likewise if animals were energy efficient but nutrient inefficient during digestion, it's conceivable that nutrients would be more limiting than energy. | |
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| May 22, 2014 at 18:13 | history | answered | Doug B | CC BY-SA 3.0 |