1. Ecology: We are all connected and interdependent

2. Fig 54.6
Food Web

3. Ecological Interconnections

4. Fig 54.1
Interconnections

5. Predator-Prey interactions
Fig 52.12
Predator-Prey interactions

6. Hare populations are limited by predation and food availability.
Fig 52.13
Hare populations are limited by predation and food availability.

7. Fig 52.7
Carrying Capacity
stationary phase
exponential growth

8. Human Population Growth
Fig 52.16
Human Population Growth

9. What limits Carrying Capacity?… Fig 52.7 stationary phase
exponential growth

10. …Availability of resources.
Space

11. Availability of resources and removal of waste limits carrying capacity
Fig 54.1

12. fewer consumers than producers

13. Energy is lost in each consumer
Fig 54.7
Energy is lost in each consumer
1000

14. Energy is lost as it is consumed: where does it go?
Fig 54.7
Energy is lost as it is consumed: where does it go?
1000

15. only a small percent of energy from plants enters the food chain
Fig 54.8
only a small percent of energy from plants enters the food chain

16. only a small percent of energy is stored in organism
Fig 54.9
only a small percent of energy is stored in organism

17. Energy is lost in each consumer
Fig 54.7
Energy is lost in each consumer
1000

19. …Availability of resources.
Space

20. Fig 54.14
Carbon cycle

21. CO2 levels in Hawaii and average global temp.
Fig 54.15
CO2 levels in Hawaii and average global temp.

22. We are all interconnected and interrelated...
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