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Chapter 1 Introduction to Ecosystem Science © 2013 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. From Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Weathers, Strayer, and Likens (eds).

2 Figure 1.1 Some examples of ecosystems: (a) the frigid Salmon River, Idaho; (b) a residential neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland; (c) a biofilm on a rock in a stream; (d) a section of the southern ocean containing a phytoplankton bloom; (e) a redwood forest in the fog in California; (f) a tree cavity; (g) the Earth (Photocredits: 1a - John Davis; 1b - Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER; 1c - Colden Baxter; 1d - US government, public domain; 1e -Samuel M. Simkin; 1f -Ian Walker; 1g - NASA, © 2013 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. From Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Weathers, Strayer, and Likens (eds).

3 Figure 1.2 Average phosphorus inputs and outputs in kilograms/year to Mirror Lake, NH. Total average inputs = 6.7 kilograms/year; total average outputs = 4.1 kilograms/year. Inputs – outputs = 2.7 kilograms/year or 39.7% retention of phosphorus in the lake. (Data from Winter and Likens 2009.) © 2013 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. From Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Weathers, Strayer, and Likens (eds).

4 Figure 1.3 Two views of the same ecosystem. The left side shows some of the parts inside an ecosystem and how they are connected, as well as the exchanges between the ecosystem and its surroundings, whereas the right side shows a black-box approach in which the functions of an ecosystem (i.e., its inputs and outputs) can be studied without knowing what is inside the box. (Modified from Likens 1992.) © 2013 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. From Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Weathers, Strayer, and Likens (eds).

5 Figure 1.4 DayCent-Chem model processes. DayCent-Chem was developed to address ecosystem responses to combined atmospheric nitrogen and sulfur deposition. DayCent-Chem operates on a daily time step and computes atmospheric deposition, soil water fluxes, snowpack and stream dynamics, plant production and uptake, soil organic matter decomposition, mineralization, nitrification, and denitrification (left side of figure) while utilizing PHREEQC’s (an aqueous geochemical equilibrium model) low-temperature aqueous geochemical equilibrium calculations, including CO 2 dissolution, mineral denudation, and cation exchange, to compute soil water and stream chemistry (right side of figure). ET = evapotranspiration; DOC = dissolved organic carbon; CEC = cation exchange capacity; ANC = acid neutralizing capacity; BC = base cations (Ca, Mg, K, Na). The model requires considerable site-specific environmental data to run. (From Hartman et al. 2009, Figure 1.3.) © 2013 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. From Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Weathers, Strayer, and Likens (eds).

6 Figure 1.5 Use of stable and radioisotopes to determine the source of organic matter supporting zooplankton in the Hudson River (Caraco et al. 2010). Isotope bi-plots show 14 C vs. 13 C (left side) and 14 C vs. 2 H (right side). Sources of carbon from modern primary production are shown near the tops of the graphs (FlAV = floating-leaved aquatic vegetation; SAV = submersed aquatic vegetation). If zooplankton were composed of carbon and hydrogen from these sources, then the data for isotopic composition of zooplankton should fall in the same region of the graph as the sources. Instead, zooplankton fall far outside this region of the graph, showing that they must be composed of organic matter from both modern and “aged” sources (i.e., organic matter thousands of years old from the soils of the Hudson River’s watershed). (From Caraco et al ) © 2013 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. From Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Weathers, Strayer, and Likens (eds).

7 Figure 1.6 Atmospheric deposition of nitrogen and sulfur for the year 2000 to Mount Desert Island study area of Acadia National Park, Maine (ACAD). Deposition estimates are based on a GIS-based empirical model. (From Weathers et al ) © 2013 Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved. From Fundamentals of Ecosystem Science, Weathers, Strayer, and Likens (eds).