1. MARINE ECOLOGY HABITAT… ECOLOGY… POPULATION…. COMMUNITY..
Climate change in oceans video clip

2. BIOTIC FACTORS

3. ABIOTIC FACTORS
Examples….

4. Measuring population growth
Exponential Curve Logistics Growth Curve
What gets used up as curve goes higher and higher?
Birth rate = death rate
Carrying capacity……growth limiting resources…light, nutrients,
Carrying capacity ??

5. COMPETITION defined… is it good?
INTERSPECIFIC
Competitive Exclusion
Resource Partitioning
COMPETITION defined… is it good?
INTRASPECIFIC

6. SPECIALIST vs. GENERALIST

7. PREDATION
CARNIVORE
HERBIVORE
OMNIVORE

8. NATURAL SELECTION……….. FAVORS THOSE WHO ARE GOOD ………
AND ALSO THOSE WHO ARE GOOD AT ………….

9. DEFENSE MECHANISMS
POISONS
SHELLS
TOXINS
??????…….

11. Inducible defenses Examples…..

12. LIVING TOGETHER

13. SYMBIOSIS examples

14. FACULTATIVE symbiosis vs. OBLIGATIVE symbiosis

15. FLOW OF ENERGY
AUTOTROPHS HETEROTRPHS
Food Chains Food Webs

16. TROPHIC
LEVELS

17. Trophic pyramids

18. WHY PYRAMIDS???

19. DECOMPOSERS
EXAMPLES
Defined

20. NUTRIENT CYCLES Energy vs. Minerals importance CARBON…………………..
NITROGEN……………….
PHOSPHORUS…………..

23. ECOLOGICAL ZONES Based on where and how organisms live PLANKTON NEKTON
BENTHIC P E L A G I C

24. PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT Epipelagic…200m Mesopelagic..1000m
Bathypelagic..4000m
Abyssalpelagic..deep
Hadopelagic..deeper

25. INTERTIDAL ZONE
LITTORAL ZONE
SUBTIDAL ZONE
SUBLITTORAL ZONE

26. Climate change in oceans
Austin’s video clip