Slide 1 of 21 Levels of Organization Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall Ecosystem Community Population Individual Biome Biosphere

Figure Examples of terrestrial and marine food chains

Figure An antarctic marine food web

Figure 54.1 An overview of ecosystem dynamics

Slide 5 of 21 Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall Producers Photosynthesis is responsible for adding oxygen to—and removing carbon dioxide from—Earth's atmosphere.

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Figure Energy partitioning within a link of the food chain

Figure An idealized pyramid of net production

Figure Pyramids of biomass (standing crop)

Figure A pyramid of numbers

Figure Food energy available to the human population at different trophic levels

Figure 53.2 Testing a competitive exclusion hypothesis in the field

Figure 53.3a Resource partitioning in a group of lizards

Figure 53.4 Character displacement: circumstantial evidence for competition in nature

Figure 53.3bc Anolis distichus (left) and Anolis insolitus (right)

Figure 53.x2 Parasitic behavior: A female Nasonia vitripennis laying a clutch of eggs into the pupa of a blowfly (Phormia regina)

Figure 53.9 Mutualism between acacia trees and ants

Figure 53.x3 Commensalism between a bird and mammal

Figure 53.0 Lion with kill in a grassland community

Figure Biological magnification of DDT in a food chain

Figure A general model of nutrient cycling

Figure The carbon cycle

Figure The water cycle

Figure The nitrogen cycle

Figure The phosphorous cycle

Figure Review: Generalized scheme for biogeochemical cycles

Figure A climograph for some major kinds of ecosystems (biomes) in North America

Figure The distribution of major terrestrial biomes

Figure Freshwater biomes: Oligotrophic lake (left), eutrophic lake (top right), stream flowing into a river (bottom right)

Figure 50.25a Tropical forests

Figure 50.25b Savanna

Figure 50.25bx Savanna

Figure 50.25c Deserts

Figure 50.25d Chaparral

Figure 50.25dx Chaparral

Figure 50.25e Temperate grassland

Figure 20.25f Temperate deciduous forest

Figure 20.25g Coniferous forests

Figure 20.25h Tundra

Ecological Succession Mosses soon appear, and grasses take root in the thin layer of soil. Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

Ecological Succession Eventually, tree seedlings and shrubs sprout among the plant community. Copyright Pearson Prentice Hall

Figure Population growth predicted by the logistic model

Figure How well do these populations fit the logistic population growth model?

Figure Extreme population fluctuations

Figure Population cycles in the snowshoe hare and lynx

Figure Human population growth

Demographic transition

Figure Age-structure pyramids for the human population of Kenya (growing at 2.1% per year), the United States (growing at 0.6% per year), and Italy (zero growth) for 1995

Figure 52.8 Population growth predicted by the exponential model