chapter 2 fundamentals of ecology karleskint small turner
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Chapter 2Chapter 2Fundamentals of EcologyFundamentals of Ecology
KarleskintKarleskint
SmallSmall
TurnerTurner
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Key Concepts
• Ecology is the study of relationships among organisms and the interactions of organisms with their environment.
• An organism’s environment consists of biotic (biological interactions) and abiotic (non-living, physical) factors.
• An organism’s habitat is where it lives, and its niche is the role the organism plays in its community.
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Key Concepts• All organisms expend energy to maintain
homeostasis, i.e., internal balance relative to external changes.
• Physical factors of the environment, such as sunlight, temperature, salinity, exposure, and pressure, will determine where organisms can live.
• Species interactions that influence the distribution of organisms in the marine environment include competition, predation and symbiosis.
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Key Concepts• Marine ecosystems consist of interacting
communities and their physical environments.
• Most populations initially grow at an exponential rate, but as they approach the carrying capacity of the environment, the growth rate levels off.
• Energy in ecosystems flows from producers to and through consumers.
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Key Concepts
• The average amount of energy passed from one trophic level to the next is approximately 10%, limiting the number and biomass of organisms at different trophic levels.
• With the exception of energy, everything that is required for life is recycled.
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Study of Ecology
• Ecology– from the Greek word oikos meaning “home”
• Environment– biotic factors– abiotic factors
• Habitat: where an organisms lives
• Ecosystems– composed of living organisms and their non-
living environment
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Study of Ecology
• The study of organisms interacting with one another and their environment. This entails:– biological (biotic) factors– environmental (abiotic) factors– the organism’s behavior
• Niche: an organism’s environmental role
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Homeostasis and Distribution of Marine Organisms
• Maintaining homeostasis– changes in external environment– internal adjustments to maintain a stable
internal environment• optimal range• zones of intolerance
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Characteristics of the Physical Environment that Affect Organism Distribution
• Sunlight– photosynthesis– vision– desiccation
• Temperature– ectotherms– endotherms
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• Salinity–solutes–osmosis–solutes in the body fluids of organisms–tolerance for variation ion environmental
salinity–regulation of solutes in body fluids
Characteristics of the Physical Environment that Affect Organism Distribution
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No net watermovement
(c) Hypotonic solution(b) Hypertonic solution(a) Isotonic solution
Net water movementinto the cell
Net water movementout of the cell
Insidethe cell
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Fig. 2-4, p. 19
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• Pressure–760 mm Hg or 1 atmosphere at sea level–increases 1 atmosphere for every 10 meters
below sea level
Characteristics of the Physical Environment that Affect Organism
Distribution
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• Metabolic requirements–nutrients and limiting nutrients–oxygen as a requirement for metabolism–anaerobic and aerobic organisms–eutrophication and algal bloom
• Metabolic wastes–carbon dioxide is a common byproduct of
metabolism
Characteristics of the Physical Environment that Affect Organism
Distribution
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• A group of the same species that occupies a specified area
• Geographic range
• Population size
Populations
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• Population density (abundance)
• Dispersion– clumped– uniform– random
Distribution of Organisms in a Population
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• Can occur through:– reproduction– immigration– death– emigration
• Can be affected by:– survivorship– life history– opportunistic and equilibrium species
Changes in Population Size
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• Many ways a population can increase in size, depending on the carrying capacity of the environment– exponential/logarithmic growth– logistic growth
Population Growth
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• Density Dependent Factors– have greater effect as population increases in
size
• Density Independent Factors– not related to population size
Population Growth
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• Composed of populations of different species that occupy one habitat at the same time
• Niche: what an organism does in its environment– fundamental niche– realized niche
Communities
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Communities
• Biological environment– competition
• may be interspecific or intraspecific• may result in competitive exclusion• resource partitioning allows organisms to share a
resource
– predator-prey relationships• balance of abundance of prey vs. predators• keystone predators
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Communities
• Symbiosis: living together– mutualism – both organisms benefit – commensalism – one organism benefits, the
other is nether harmed nor benefited– parasitism – one organism benefits, the other
is harmed
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Ecosystems: Basic Units of the Biosphere
• Energy flow through ecosystems
• Producers = Autotrophs
(auto = self, troph = feed)– photosynthetic producers– chemosynthetic producers
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Sunlight
Chlorophyll
6 Oxygen (O2)
+Glucose (C6H12O6)
Produces
6 Water (H2O)
+6 Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Stepped Art
Fig. 2-16, p. 32
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Ecosystems: Basic Units of the Biosphere
• Measuring primary productivity– rate at which energy-rich food molecules are
being produced from inorganic matter– measuring carbon in organic products of
photosynthesis• light-dark-bottle method• radioactive tracers• satellite images
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Ecosystems: Basic Units of the Biosphere
• Consumers = Heterotrophs (hetero = other, troph = feed)
– first-order consumers– second- and third-order consumers– detrivores– decomposers
• Food chains and food webs• Other energy pathways
– dissolved organic matter (DOM)– Detritus
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Seaweed(producer)
Sea urchin(first-order consumer,herbivore)
Helmet snail(second-order consumer,carnivore)
Fish(third-order consumer,carnivore)
Stepped Art
Fig. 2-17, p. 33
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Ecosystems: Basic Units of the Biosphere
• Trophic levels– number of levels is limited because only a
fraction of the energy at one level passes to the next level
– ecological efficiency• ten percent rule
– trophic pyramids• as energy passed on decreases, so does the
number of organisms that can be supported
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Biogeochemical Cycles
• Hydrologic cycle– water is lost through evaporation– carried north and south from equator– carried west to east within each hemisphere– returned through precipitation and runoff
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Ocean
Lakes Soil moisture
Land
Precipitation
Moist air
Precipitation
Seaspray
Salt Runoff
Groundwater
Soak in andpercolation
SeepageSeepage
Evaporation fromrivers, soils, vegetation, lakes, falling precipitation
Evaporationfrom ocean
Stepped Art
Fig. 2-20, p. 36
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Biogeochemical Cycles
• Carbon cycle– carbon released from organisms through
respiration and decomposition– recycled by photosynthetic producers– carbon is used in shells, corals and skeletons
as part of calcium carbonate
– fossil fuels when burned release CO2 back into atmosphere
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CO2 in the atmosphere
Plant residuesPeatcoal
Limestone
Decomposers
SedimentsShells
CO2 in atmosphere to plantsfor photosynthesis
Precipitation
Limestone CO2 istaken up by
phytoplanktonfor photosynthesis
DissolvedCO2
Respiration
DissolvedCO2 forms
HCO3–
Decomposition
Stepped Art
Fig. 2-21, p. 37
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Biogeochemical Cycles
• Nitrogen cycle– producers use nitrogen to synthesize protein
forming amino acids– bacteria recycle nitrogen from wastes and
decomposing, dead organisms– fixation of atmospheric nitrogen by
microorganisms
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Biosphere• Includes all of earth’s communities and
ecosystems• Examples of ecosystems:
– estuaries– salt marshes– mangrove swamps– rocky and sandy shores– kelp forests– coral reefs– open ocean
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Distribution of Marine Communities
• Pelagic division– neritic zone and pelagic zone– photic zone, disphotic zone, and aphotic zone– plankton and nekton
• Benthic division– shelf zone, bathyal zone, abyssal zone, and
hadal zone– epifauna and infauna