From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 18 pps

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 18 pps

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 18 pps

... land- derived, nutrient-rich water from rivers. Air–sea exchange Atmosphere Ocean surface Mixed layer Benthos Dissolved inorganics Small phytoplankton Large phytoplankton Bacteria MacrozooplanktonMicrozooplankton Bacteria Dissolved ... introduced tracer levels of a rare isotope of nitro- gen (as nitrate-containing 15 N) into the water of an estuary in Massachusetts, USA, to study how nit...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 2 pps

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 2 pps

... sampled from diverse localities in northern USA and Canada, and were tested for freezing tolerance and ability to acclimate to cold. Individuals from the most freeze-tolerant population (from ... environ- mental conditions because water tends to move into organisms from the environment and this needs to be resisted. In marine habitats, the majority of organisms are isotonic...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 5 pps

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 5 pps

... therefore trajectories that follow a cohort through time. This is indicated by arrows, pointing from many small, young individuals (bottom right) to fewer, larger, older individuals (top left). Mean ... small population sizes: A to B, B to C) and is small close to the carrying capacity (I to J, J to K), but is large at intermediate densities (E to F). The result is an ‘S...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 15 ppsx

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 15 ppsx

... 1000 40 20 189 6 189 7 189 8 189 9 1900 189 5 189 1 189 3 189 2 189 4 188 2 188 3 188 4 188 5 188 6 188 8 188 7 189 0 188 9 Figure 15.16 The fleet size of the North Pacific fur seal fishery (predators) responded to the ... We cannot con- tinue to use the same pesticides if increasing numbers of pests become resistant to them. We cannot (if we wish to have fish to eat i...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 17 ppsx

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 17 ppsx

... water too deep for photosynthesis to be appreciable or even to take place at all, but it derives its energy base from dead phytoplankton, bacteria, animals and feces that sink from the autotrophic ... normal photosynthetic chan- nels, and it overflows into destructive photo-oxidation reactions. The more nutrient-rich a water body is, the shallower its euphotic zone is likely to be (F...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 21 ppsx

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 21 ppsx

... species richness from island to island was partitioned, statistically, into that attributable to island area alone, that attrib- utable to habitat diversity alone, that attributable to correlated variation ... species richness may be related to an increase in pro- ductivity as one moves from the poles to the equator. The length of the growing season increases from the poles...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 22 pps

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 22 pps

... was an entirely bottom-up effort by the local community (not directed top-down by governmental or nongovernmental agencies) and the diverse groups have worked face -to- face from the beginning. ... herb- ivorous zooplankton and phytoplankton to guide the manage- ment of lakes towards a particular ecosystem endpoint (Mehner et al., 2002). •• Cumulative number of invaders 0 181 0–19 (c) 2...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 1 pptx

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 1 pptx

... area showing the gradual change from pasture to cliff conditions. (c) The mean length of stolons produced in the experimental garden from samples taken from the transect. (From Aston & Bradshaw, 1966.) the ... evolutionary history. All species are absent from almost everywhere, and we consider next, in Chapter 2, the ways in which environmental conditions vary from place...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 3 potx

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 3 potx

... dioxide The CO 2 used in photosynthesis is obtained almost entirely from the atmo- sphere, where its concentration has risen from approximately 280 µll −1 in 1750 to about 370 µll −1 today and is still ... feedback from elevated CO 2 concentrations to plant growth, to microbial activity and back to plant growth. The arrows between descriptors indicate causation; the black arrow...
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From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 4 ppt

From Individuals to Ecosystems 4th Edition - Chapter 4 ppt

... sometimes to pupae, and then to adults; plants pass from seeds to seedlings to photosynthesizing adults; and so on. The different stages are likely to be influenced by different factors and to have ... population to describe a group of individuals of one species under investigation. What actually constitutes a popula- tion, though, will vary from species to species and f...
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