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Ecosystems

biosphere ecosystem community population Studying organisms in their environment organism

Essential questions What limits the production in ecosystems? How do nutrients move in the ecosystem? How does energy move through the ecosystem?

Ecosystem All the organisms in a community plus abiotic factors ecosystems are transformers of energy & processors of matter Ecosystems are self-sustaining what is needed?  capture energy  transfer energy  cycle nutrients  capture energy  transfer energy  cycle nutrients

biosphere Ecosystem inputs constant input of energy energy flows through nutrients cycle nutrients can only cycle inputs  energy  nutrients inputs  energy  nutrients Don’t forget the laws of Physics! Matter cannot be created or destroyed

consumers decomposers abiotic reservoir nutrients made available to producers geologic processes Generalized Nutrient cycling consumers producers decomposers abiotic reservoir nutrients made available to producers geologic processes Decomposition connects all trophic levels

Carbon cycle CO 2 in atmosphere Diffusion Respiration Photosynthesis Plants and algae Plants Animals Industry and home Combustion of fuels Animals Carbonates in sediment Bicarbonates Deposition of dead material Deposition of dead material Fossil fuels (oil, gas, coal) Dissolved CO 2

Birds Herbivores Plants amino acids Carnivores Atmospheric nitrogen loss to deep sediments Fish Plankton with nitrogen-fixing bacteria Nitrogen-fixing bacteria (plant roots) Nitrogen-fixing bacteria (soil) Denitrifying bacteria Death, excretion, feces Nitrifying bacteria soil nitrates excretion Decomposing bacteria Ammonifying bacteria Nitrogen cycle

Nitrogen cycle matching game! Denitrifying bacteria Nitrifying bacteria Decomposers do ammonification Nitrogen-fixing bacteria Nitrification NO 2 - →NO 3 - N 2 →NH 4 + NO 3 -→ N 2 → NH 4 + NH 4 +→ NO 2 -

Phosphorus cycle Loss to deep sediment Rocks and minerals Soluble soil phosphate Plants and algae Plants Urine Land animals Precipitates Aquatic animals Animal tissue and feces Animal tissue and feces Decomposers (bacteria and fungi) Decomposers (bacteria & fungi) Phosphates in solution Loss in drainage

Lakes Runoff Percolation in soil Evaporation Transpiration Precipitation Oceans Solar energy Aquifer Groundwater Water cycle Water vapor

Transpiration Remember transpiration?

Breaking the water cycle Deforestation breaks the water cycle groundwater is not transpired to the atmosphere, so precipitation is not created forest  desert desertification

Repairing the damage The Greenbelt Movement planting trees in Kenya restoring a sustainable ecosystem establishing democracy empowering women Wangari Maathai Nobel Peace prize 2004

Studying ecosystems Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest 7800 acres 38 acre deforestation

Effects of deforestation Concentration of nitrate (mg/l ) Year Deforestation nitrate levels in runoff 40% increase in runoff  loss of water 40% increase in runoff  loss of water  60x loss in nitrogen  10x loss in calcium  60x loss in nitrogen  10x loss in calcium loss into surface water loss out of ecosystem! Why is nitrogen so important?

biosphere Ecosystem inputs energy flows through nutrients cycle inputs  energy  nutrients inputs  energy  nutrients

Energy flows through ecosystems sun producers (plants) loss of energy secondary consumers (carnivores) secondary consumers (carnivores) primary consumers (herbivores) primary consumers (herbivores)

Food chains Trophic levels feeding relationships start with energy from the sun captured by plants 1 st level of all food chains food chains usually go up only 4 or 5 levels inefficiency of energy transfer all levels connect to decomposers Fungi Level 4 Level 3 Level 2 Level 1 Decomposers Producer Primary consumer Secondary consumer Tertiary consumer top carnivore carnivore herbivore Bacteria autotrophs heterotrophs sun

Inefficiency of energy transfer Loss of energy between levels of food chain To where is the energy lost? The cost of living! only this energy moves on to the next level in the food chain 17% growth 50% waste (feces) 33% cellular respiration energy lost to daily living sun

Ecological pyramid Loss of energy between levels of food chain can feed fewer animals in each level 1,000,000, , Numbers sun

Humans in food chains Dynamics of energy through ecosystems have important implications for human populations how much energy does it take to feed a human? if we are meat eaters? if we are vegetarian?

Food webs Food chains are linked together into food webs Who eats whom? a species may weave into web at more than one level bears humans eating meat? eating plants?