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Page 1: Ecosystem Ecology. “organisms in the ecosystem regulating the capture and expenditure of energy, and the cycling of chemicals.” Ecosystem Ecology is

Ecosystem Ecology

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“organisms in the ecosystem regulating the capture and expenditure of energy, and the cycling of chemicals.”

Ecosystem Ecology is

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“organisms in the ecosystem

regulating the capture and expenditure of energy, and

the cycling of chemicals.”

Ecosystem Ecology is

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Ecosphere

a closed system

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Energy

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Nutrients

(Chemicals)

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Food Chains

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Producers

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Food Chains

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Herbivore

Primary consumer

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Food Chains

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CarnivoreSecondary Consumer

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Omnivore

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Food Web

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Food Web

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Nutrients

(Chemicals)

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Food Chain

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No such thing as a free lunch …

… and no lunch goes uneaten

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Detritus

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Detritivores

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Decomposers (detritivores)

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Nutrients Cycle

Food chain

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Energy

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Lightenergy

Carbondioxide

Water

Photo-synthesis Glucose Oxygen

gas

Energy is stored in organic molecules during photosynthesis

Photosynthesis

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Stored energy can be released

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Where does the energy go?

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Energy Input

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Energy Loss

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Food Chain Energy Flow

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Food Chain Numbers

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Primary production NOT based on solar energy

Galapagos Vent Community

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Productivity

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Coos Bay, Oregon

Salt Marsh

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Tundra

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Death Valley

Desert

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Tropical Rain Forest

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Primary Production

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Biomass

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Water Cycle

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Transpiration

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Water Cycle disrupted

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Carbon Cycle

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Global ClimateChange

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Fossil Fuels

natural gasoil

coal

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Carboniferous Period (354-290 mya)

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Greenhouse Effect

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Nitrogen Cycle

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Nitrogen Cycle

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Phosphorus Cycle

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Wetlands

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Distrurbed ecosystem…

disrupted cycles

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Biomes

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Sunlight strikes the Earth

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It rains in the tropics --- lots.

Brazil

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Movements of Air masses

falling air

rising air

rising air

falling air

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Great deserts at around 30 degrees North and South

Egypt

Arizona

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Movements of Air masses

falling air

rising air

rising air

falling air

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1000 m up in elevation

6 degrees C drop in temperature

Elevation and Temperature

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Albuquerquesame

elevation

725 km north

Denver

Elevation and Temperature

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Elevation and Temperature

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Latitude and Temperature

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Latitude

Elevation

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South Facing slope

North Facing Slope

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Rain Shadow

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Rain shadow

xeric face

mesic face

Sandia Mountains, northern New Mexico

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World Biomes

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Northern New Mexico

Semiarid Grassland

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Pinon-Juniper scrub land

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World Biomes

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Tropical Rain Forest

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Tropical Rain Forest

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Forest canopy, Peru

Tropical Rain Forest

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Slash and burn

Tropical Rain Forest

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World Biomes

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Savanna

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Kenya

Savanna

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World Biomes

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Sonoran Desert, Arizona

Desert

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World Biomes

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Temperate Grasslands

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World Biomes

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Temperate Deciduous Forest

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World Biomes

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Taiga – Coniferous Forest

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World Biomes

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San Juan Wilderness area, Colorado

Alpine Tundra

Mount Rainier, Washington

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR)

Arctic Tundra

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John Torrington, d. 1846

Permafrost

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World Biomes

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Distribution of Chaparral Biome

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Southern California Coastal Chaparral

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Mediterranean Chaparral

Spain

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Oceans

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Ocean Currents

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Upwellings

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Shallow Oceans

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Intertidal Zone

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Estuary

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Coral Reef

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Open ocean

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Deep Ocean

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Freshwaters

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Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia

Kiamichi River, Oklahoma

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Oligotrophic

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Eutrophic