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LIVING IN THE ENVIRONMENT 17TH MILLER/SPOOLMAN
CHAPTER 3
Ecosystems: What Are They and How Do They Work?
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Core Case Study: Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing
• Cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface
• Contain about 50% of the world’s known plant and animal species
• Disruption will have three major harmful effects
• Reduce biodiversity
• Accelerate global warming
• Change regional weather patterns
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Natural Capital Degradation: Satellite Image of the Loss of Tropical Rain Forest
Fig. 3-1a, p. 54
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3-1 What Keeps Us and Other Organisms Alive?
• Concept 3-1A The four major components of the earth’s life-support system are the atmosphere (air), the hydrosphere (water), the geosphere (rock, soil, and sediment), and the biosphere (living things).
• Concept 3-1B Life is sustained by the flow of energy from the sun through the biosphere, the cycling of nutrients within the biosphere, and gravity.
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The Earth’s Life-Support System Has Four Major Components
• Atmosphere
• Troposphere: where weather happens
• Stratosphere: contains ozone layer
• Hydrosphere
• Geosphere
• Biosphere
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Natural Capital: General Structure of the Earth
Fig. 3-2, p. 56
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Fig. 3-2, p. 56
Soil
Biosphere (living organisms)
Atmosphere
Rock Crust
Mantle
Geosphere (crust, mantle, core) Mantle
Core Atmosphere (air)
Hydrosphere (water)
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The Diversity of Life
Fig. 3-3a, p. 56
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Three Factors Sustain Life on Earth
• One-way flow of high-quality energy: • Sun → plants → living things → environment as heat →
radiation to space
• Cycling of nutrients through parts of the biosphere
• Gravity holds earths atmosphere
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Sun, Earth, Life, and Climate
• Sun: UV, visible, and IR energy
• Radiation
• Absorbed by ozone and other atmosphere gases
• Absorbed by the earth
• Reflected by the earth
• Radiated by the atmosphere as heat
• Natural greenhouse effect
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Flow of Energy to and from the Earth
Fig. 3-4, p. 57
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Fig. 3-4, p. 57
Solar radiation
Reflected by atmosphere
Radiated by atmosphere as heat UV radiation
Lower Stratosphere (ozone layer) Most UV absorbed
by ozone Visible light
Heat added to troposphere
Troposphere Heat radiated by the earth
Greenhouse effect
Absorbed by the earth
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3-2 What Are the Major Components of an Ecosystem?
• Concept 3-2 Some organisms produce the nutrients they need, others get their nutrients by consuming other organisms, and some recycle nutrients back to producers by decomposing the wastes and remains of organisms.
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Ecologists Study Interactions in Nature
• Ecology: how organisms interact with each other and their nonliving environment
• Organisms
• Populations
• Communities
• Ecosystems
• Biosphere
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Levels of Organization in Nature
Fig. 3-5, p. 58
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Fig. 3-5, p. 58
Parts of the earth's air, water, and soil where life is found
Biosphere
A community of different species interacting with one another and with their nonliving environment of matter and energy
Ecosystem
Populations of different species living in a particular place, and potentially interacting with each other
Community
Population A group of individuals of the same species living in a particular place
Organism An individual living being
The fundamental structural and functional unit of life
Cell
Chemical combination of two or more atoms of the same or different elements
Molecule
Smallest unit of a chemical element that exhibits its chemical properties
Atom
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Smallest unit of a chemical element
that exhibits its chemical properties Atom
Molecule Chemical combination of two or
more atoms of the same or different
elements
Cell
The fundamental structural and
functional unit of life
Organism An individual living being
Population A group of individuals of the same
species living in a particular place
Community Populations of different species
living in a particular place, and
potentially interacting with each
other
Stepped Art
Ecosystem A community of different species
interacting with one another and with
their nonliving environment of matter
and energy
Biosphere Parts of the earth's air,water, and soil
where life is found
Oxygen Hydrogen
Water
Fig. 3-5, p. 58
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Ecosystems Have Living and Nonliving Components
• Abiotic • Water
• Air
• Nutrients
• Rocks
• Heat
• Solar energy
• Biotic • Living and once living
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Major Biotic and Abiotic Components of an Ecosystem
Fig. 3-6, p. 59
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Fig. 3-6, p. 59
Precipitaton Oxygen (O2)
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
Producer
Secondary consumer (fox)
Primary consumer (rabbit)
Producers
Water Decomposers
Soluble mineral nutrients
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Producers and Consumers Are the Living Components of Ecosystems (1)
• Producers, autotrophs
• Photosynthesis:
• CO2 + H2O + sunlight → glucose + oxygen
• Chemosynthesis
• Consumers, heterotrophs
• Primary consumers = herbivores
• Secondary consumers
• Tertiary consumers
• Carnivores, Omnivores
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Producers
Fig. 3-7a, p. 59
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Consumers
Fig. 3-8a, p. 60
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Producers and Consumers Are the Living Components of Ecosystems (2)
• Decomposers
• Consumers that release nutrients
• Bacteria
• Fungi
• Detritivores
• Feed on dead bodies of other organisms
• Earthworms
• Vultures
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Decomposer
Fig. 3-9a, p. 61
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Detritivores and Decomposers
Fig. 3-10, p. 61
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Fig. 3-10, p. 61
Detritus feeders Decomposers
Carpenter ant galleries Bark beetle
engraving
Termite and
Dry rot fungus
Long-horned beetle holes
Wood reduced to powder Fungi
Time progression Powder broken down by decomposers into plant nutrients in soil
carpenter ant work
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Producers and Consumers Are the Living Components of Ecosystems (3)
• Aerobic respiration
• Using oxygen to turn glucose back to carbon dioxide and water
• Anaerobic respiration = fermentation
• End products are carbon compounds such as methane or acetic acid
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Energy Flow and Nutrient Cycling
• One-way energy flow from sun
• Nutrient cycling of key materials
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Ecosystem Components
Fig. 3-11, p. 62
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Fig. 3-11, p. 62
Solar energy Chemical nutrients
(carbon dioxide, oxygen, nitrogen,
minerals)
Heat
Heat Heat
Decomposers (bacteria, fungi)
Producers (plants)
Consumers (plant eaters, meat eaters)
Heat Heat
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Science Focus: Many of the World’s Most Important Species Are Invisible to Us
Microorganisms
• Bacteria
• Protozoa
• Fungi
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3-3 What Happens to Energy in an Ecosystem?
• Concept 3-3 As energy flows through ecosystems in food chains and webs, the amount of chemical energy available to organisms at each succeeding feeding level decreases.
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Energy Flows Through Ecosystems in Food Chains and Food Webs
• Food chain
• Movement of energy and nutrients from one trophic level to the next
• Photosynthesis → feeding → decomposition
• Food web
• Network of interconnected food chains
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A Food Chain
Fig. 3-12, p. 63
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Fig. 3-12, p. 63
First Trophic Level
Second Trophic
Level
Third Trophic Level
Fourth Trophic Level
Producers (plants) Primary consumers (herbivores)
Secondary consumers (carnivores)
Tertiary consumers (top carnivores)
Heat Heat Heat Heat
Solar energy
Heat
Heat Heat
Decomposers and detritus feeders
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A Food Web
Fig. 3-13, p. 64
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Fig. 3-13, p. 64
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Usable Energy Decreases with Each Link in a Food Chain or Web
• Biomass
• Dry weight of all organic matter of a given trophic level in a food chain or food web
• Decreases at each higher trophic level due to heat loss
• Pyramid of energy flow
• 90% of energy lost with each transfer
• Less chemical energy for higher trophic levels
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Pyramid of Energy Flow
Fig. 3-14, p. 65
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Fig. 3-14, p. 65
Usable energy available at each trophic level
(in kilocalories) Heat
Tertiary consumers (human) 10
Heat
Secondary consumers (perch)
Heat Decomposers Heat
100
Primary consumers (zooplankton)
Heat
1,000
10,000 Producers (phytoplankton)
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10
Heat
Tertiary
consumers
(human)
Usable energy available
at each trophic level
(in kilocalories)
Heat
Secondary
consumers
(perch)
100
Heat Decomposers Heat
Primary
consumers
(zooplankton)
1,000
Heat
Producers
(phytoplankton)
10,000
Stepped Art
Fig. 3-14, p. 65
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Some Ecosystems Produce Plant Matter Faster Than Others Do
• Gross primary productivity (GPP) • Rate at which an ecosystem’s producers convert solar
energy to chemical energy and biomass
• Kcal/m2/year
• Net primary productivity (NPP) • Rate at which an ecosystem’s producers convert solar
energy to chemical energy, minus the rate at which producers use energy for aerobic respiration
• Ecosystems and life zones differ in their NPP
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Estimated Annual Average NPP in Major Life Zones and Ecosystems
Fig. 3-15, p. 66
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Fig. 3-15, p. 66
Terrestrial Ecosystems
Swamps and marshes
Tropical rain forest
Temperate forest
Northern coniferous forest (taiga)
Savanna
Agricultural land
Woodland and shrubland
Temperate grassland
Tundra (arctic and alpine)
Desert scrub
Extreme desert
Aquatic Ecosystems
Estuaries
Lakes and streams
Continental shelf
Open ocean
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3-4 What Happens to Matter in an Ecosystem?
• Concept 3-4 Matter, in the form of nutrients, cycles within and among ecosystems and the biosphere, and human activities are altering these chemical cycles.
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Nutrients Cycle in the Biosphere
• Biogeochemical cycles, nutrient cycles
• Hydrologic
• Carbon
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorus
• Sulfur
• Nutrients may remain in a reservoir for a period of time
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Water Cycles through the Biosphere
• Natural renewal of water quality: three major processes
• Evaporation
• Precipitation
• Transpiration
• Alteration of the hydrologic cycle by humans
• Withdrawal of large amounts of freshwater at rates faster than nature can replace it
• Clearing vegetation
• Increased flooding when wetlands are drained
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Hydrologic Cycle Including Harmful Impacts of Human Activities
Fig. 3-16, p. 67
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Fig. 3-16, p. 67
Condensation Condensation
Ice and snow
Transpiration from plants
Precipitation to land Evaporation of
surface water Evaporation from ocean
Runoff
Lakes and reservoirs Precipitatio
n to ocean Runoff
Increased runoff on land covered with crops, buildings and pavement Infiltration and
percolation into aquifer
Increased runoff from cutting forests and filling wetlands
Runoff
Groundwater in aquifers
Overpumping of aquifers
Runoff Water pollution
Ocean
Natural process
Natural reservoir
Human impacts
Natural pathway
Pathway affected by human activities
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Glaciers Store Water
Fig. 3-17, p. 68
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Water Erodes Rock in Antelope Canyon
Fig. 3-18, p. 69
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Science Focus: Water’s Unique Properties
• Properties of water due to hydrogen bonds between water molecules: • Exists as a liquid over a large range of temperature
• Changes temperature slowly
• High boiling point: 100˚C
• Adhesion and cohesion
• Expands as it freezes
• Solvent
• Filters out harmful UV
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Hydrogen Bonds in Water
Supplement 4, Fig 6
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How Salt Dissolves in Water
Supplement 4, Fig 3
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Carbon Cycle Depends on Photosynthesis and Respiration
• Link between photosynthesis in producers and respiration in producers, consumers, and decomposers
• Additional CO2 added to the atmosphere
• Tree clearing
• Burning of fossil fuels
• Warms the atmosphere
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Natural Capital: Carbon Cycle with Major Harmful Impacts of Human Activities
Fig. 3-19, p. 70
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Fig. 3-19, p. 70
Carbon dioxide in atmosphere Respiration
Photosynthesis
Animals (consumers) Burning
fossil fuels Diffusion Forest fires
Plants (producers) Deforestation
Transportation Respiration Carbon in
plants (producers)
Carbon dioxide dissolved in ocean
Carbon in animals
(consumers) Decomposition
Marine food webs Producers, consumers, decomposers
Carbon in fossil fuels
Carbon in limestone or dolomite sediments
Compaction
Process
Reservoir
Pathway affected by humans
Natural pathway
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Increase in Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, 1960-2009
Supplement 9, Fig 14
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Nitrogen Cycles through the Biosphere: Bacteria in Action (1)
• Nitrogen fixed by lightning
• Nitrogen fixed by bacteria and cyanobacteria
• Combine gaseous nitrogen with hydrogen to make ammonia (NH3) and ammonium ions (NH4
+)
• Nitrification
• Soil bacteria change ammonia and ammonium ions to nitrate ions (NO3
-)
• Denitrification
• Nitrate ions back to nitrogen gas
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Nitrogen Cycles through the Biosphere: Bacteria in Action (2)
• Human intervention in the nitrogen cycle
1. Additional NO and N2O in atmosphere from burning fossil fuels; also causes acid rain
2. N2O to atmosphere from bacteria acting on fertilizers and manure
3. Destruction of forest, grasslands, and wetlands
4. Add excess nitrates to bodies of water
5. Remove nitrogen from topsoil
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Nitrogen Cycle in a Terrestrial Ecosystem with Major Harmful Human Impacts
Fig. 3-20, p. 71
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Fig. 3-20, p. 71
Process Nitrogen in atmosphere
Denitrification by bacteria
Reservoir Nitrification by bacteria Pathway affected by humans
Natural pathway
Nitrogen in animals
(consumers) Nitrogen oxides from burning fuel and using inorganic fertilizers
Volcanic activity
Electrical storms
Nitrogen in plants
(producers)
Decomposition Nitrates from
fertilizer runoff and
decomposition
Uptake by plants
Nitrate in soil
Nitrogen loss to deep ocean sediments
Nitrogen in ocean sediments
Bacteria
Ammonia in soil
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Human Input of Nitrogen into the Environment
Supplement 9, Fig 16
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Phosphorus Cycles through the Biosphere
• Cycles through water, the earth’s crust, and living organisms
• Limiting factor for plant growth
• Impact of human activities
1. Clearing forests
2. Removing large amounts of phosphate from the earth to make fertilizers
3. Erosion leaches phosphates into streams
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Phosphorus Cycle with Major Harmful Human Impacts
Fig. 3-21, p. 73
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Fig. 3-21, p. 73
Process
Reservoir
Pathway affected by humans
Natural pathway Phosphates in sewage
Phosphates in fertilizer Plate
tectonics Phosphates in mining waste Runoff Runoff
Sea birds
Runoff Phosphate in rock (fossil bones, guano)
Erosion Ocean food webs
Animals (consumers) Phosphate
dissolved in water
Phosphate in shallow ocean sediments
Phosphate in deep ocean sediments
Plants (producers)
Bacteria
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Sulfur Cycles through the Biosphere
• Sulfur found in organisms, ocean sediments, soil, rocks, and fossil fuels
• SO2 in the atmosphere
• H2SO4 and SO4-
• Human activities affect the sulfur cycle • Burn sulfur-containing coal and oil
• Refine sulfur-containing petroleum
• Convert sulfur-containing metallic mineral ores
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Natural Capital: Sulfur Cycle with Major Harmful Impacts of Human Activities
Fig. 3-22, p. 74
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Fig. 3-22, p. 74
Sulfur dioxide in atmosphere
Sulfuric acid and Sulfate deposited
as acid rain
Smelting Burning coal
Refining fossil fuels
Dimethyl sulfide a bacteria byproduct
Sulfur in animals
(consumers)
Sulfur in plants
(producers) Mining and extraction Uptake
by plants Sulfur in ocean sediments
Decay
Decay
Process Sulfur in soil, rock
and fossil fuels Reservoir
Pathway affected by humans
Natural pathway
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3-5 How Do Scientists Study Ecosystems?
• Concept 3-5 Scientists use both field research and laboratory research, as well as mathematical and other models to learn about ecosystems.
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Some Scientists Study Nature Directly
• Field research: “muddy-boots biology”
• New technologies available
• Remote sensors
• Geographic information system (GIS) software
• Digital satellite imaging
• 2005, Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS)
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Science Focus: Satellites, Google Earth, and the Environment
• Satellites as remote sensing devices
• Google Earth software allows you to view anywhere on earth, including 3-D
• Satellites can collect data from anywhere in the world
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Google Earth Images: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Fig. 3-A (3), p. 76
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Fig. 3-A (3), p. 76
Jeddah
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Some Scientists Study Ecosystems in the Laboratory
• Simplified systems carried out in
• Culture tubes and bottles
• Aquaria tanks
• Greenhouses
• Indoor and outdoor chambers
• Supported by field research
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Some Scientists Use Models to Simulate Ecosystems
• Mathematical and other models
• Computer simulations and projections
• Field and laboratory research needed for baseline data
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We Need to Learn More about the Health of the World’s Ecosystems
• Determine condition of the world’s ecosystems
• More baseline data needed
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Three Big Ideas
1. Life is sustained by the flow of energy from the sun through the biosphere, the cycling of nutrients within the biosphere, and gravity.
2. Some organisms produce the nutrients they need, others survive by consuming other organisms, and some recycle nutrients back to producer organisms.
3. Human activities are altering the flow of energy through food chains and webs and the cycling of nutrients within ecosystems and the biosphere.