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The advantages and disadvantages of relying on the conceptual models describing functions of ecosystem.
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The compartment model is a conceptual model. It helps the ecologists to describe the flow of nutrients between the living and nonliving reservoirs of nutrients. The ecosystem, according to the model is divided into four compartments, in which nutrient accumulation takes place.
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