ecosystem ecology. “organisms in the ecosystem regulating the capture and expenditure of energy,...
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Ecosystem Ecology
“organisms in the ecosystem regulating the capture and expenditure of energy, and the cycling of chemicals.”
Ecosystem Ecology is
“organisms in the ecosystem
regulating the capture and expenditure of energy, and
the cycling of chemicals.”
Ecosystem Ecology is
Ecosphere
a closed system
Energy
Nutrients
(Chemicals)
Food Chains
Producers
Food Chains
Herbivore
Primary consumer
Food Chains
CarnivoreSecondary Consumer
Omnivore
Food Web
Food Web
Nutrients
(Chemicals)
Food Chain
No such thing as a free lunch …
… and no lunch goes uneaten
Detritus
Detritivores
Decomposers (detritivores)
Nutrients Cycle
Food chain
Energy
Lightenergy
Carbondioxide
Water
Photo-synthesis Glucose Oxygen
gas
Energy is stored in organic molecules during photosynthesis
Photosynthesis
Stored energy can be released
Where does the energy go?
Energy Input
Energy Loss
Food Chain Energy Flow
Food Chain Numbers
Primary production NOT based on solar energy
Galapagos Vent Community
Productivity
Coos Bay, Oregon
Salt Marsh
Tundra
Death Valley
Desert
Tropical Rain Forest
Primary Production
Biomass
Water Cycle
Transpiration
Water Cycle disrupted
Carbon Cycle
Global ClimateChange
Fossil Fuels
natural gasoil
coal
Carboniferous Period (354-290 mya)
Greenhouse Effect
Nitrogen Cycle
Nitrogen Cycle
Phosphorus Cycle
Wetlands
Distrurbed ecosystem…
disrupted cycles
Biomes
Sunlight strikes the Earth
It rains in the tropics --- lots.
Brazil
Movements of Air masses
falling air
rising air
rising air
falling air
Great deserts at around 30 degrees North and South
Egypt
Arizona
Movements of Air masses
falling air
rising air
rising air
falling air
1000 m up in elevation
6 degrees C drop in temperature
Elevation and Temperature
Albuquerquesame
elevation
725 km north
Denver
Elevation and Temperature
Elevation and Temperature
Latitude and Temperature
Latitude
Elevation
South Facing slope
North Facing Slope
Rain Shadow
Rain shadow
xeric face
mesic face
Sandia Mountains, northern New Mexico
World Biomes
Northern New Mexico
Semiarid Grassland
Pinon-Juniper scrub land
World Biomes
Tropical Rain Forest
Tropical Rain Forest
Forest canopy, Peru
Tropical Rain Forest
Slash and burn
Tropical Rain Forest
World Biomes
Savanna
Kenya
Savanna
World Biomes
Sonoran Desert, Arizona
Desert
World Biomes
Temperate Grasslands
World Biomes
Temperate Deciduous Forest
World Biomes
Taiga – Coniferous Forest
World Biomes
San Juan Wilderness area, Colorado
Alpine Tundra
Mount Rainier, Washington
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR)
Arctic Tundra
John Torrington, d. 1846
Permafrost
World Biomes
Distribution of Chaparral Biome
Southern California Coastal Chaparral
Mediterranean Chaparral
Spain
Oceans
Ocean Currents
Upwellings
Shallow Oceans
Intertidal Zone
Estuary
Coral Reef
Open ocean
Deep Ocean
Freshwaters
Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia
Kiamichi River, Oklahoma
Oligotrophic
Eutrophic