Ecosystem respiration

The coordination of inputs and outputs of these two processes creates a completely interconnected system, constituting the underlying functioning of the ecosystems overall respiration.

While the amount of respiration is varied upon the type of ecosystem and the community abundance, the mechanism occurs in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.

[citation needed] These two categories of living things work in coordination between photosynthesis and respiration as they both produce products that the other process utilizes.

In animal and plant respiration these living beings take in glucose and oxygen while emitting energy, carbon dioxide, and water as waste.

[6] These two processes have a significant effect on the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, making their correct functioning essential to sustaining life.

Without carbon dioxide, plants would not be able to carry out photosynthesis, in turn not producing oxygen, affecting all forms of life on earth.