1. Ecosystem Ecology

2. “organisms in the ecosystem regulating the capture and expenditure of energy, and the cycling of chemicals.” Ecosystem Ecology is

3. “ organisms in the ecosystem regulating the capture and expenditure of energy, and the cycling of chemicals.” Ecosystem Ecology is

4. Ecosphere a closed system

5. Energy

6. Nutrients (Chemicals)

7. Food Chains

8. Producers

9. Food Chains

10. Herbivore Primary consumer

11. Food Chains

12. Carnivore Secondary Consumer

13. Omnivore

14. Food Web

17. Nutrients (Chemicals)

18. Food Chain

20. No such thing as a free lunch … … and no lunch goes uneaten

21. Detritus

22. Detritivores

23. Decomposers (detritivores)

25. Nutrients Cycle Food chain

26. Energy

27. Light energy Carbon dioxide Water Photo- synthesis Glucose Oxygen gas Energy is stored in organic molecules during photosynthesis Photosynthesis

28. Stored energy can be released

29. Where does the energy go?

30. Energy Input

31. Energy Loss

33. Food Chain Energy Flow

34. Food Chain Numbers

35. Primary production NOT based on solar energy Galapagos Vent Community

36. Productivity

37. Coos Bay, Oregon Salt Marsh

38. Tundra

39. Death Valley Desert

40. Tropical Rain Forest

41. Primary Production

42. Biomass

43. Water Cycle

44. Transpiration

45. Water Cycle disrupted

46. Carbon Cycle

47. Global ClimateChange

48. Fossil Fuels natural gas oil coal

49. Carboniferous Period (354-290 mya)

50. Greenhouse Effect

51. Nitrogen Cycle

53. Phosphorus Cycle

54. Wetlands

55. Distrurbed ecosystem… disrupted cycles

56. Biomes

58. Sunlight strikes the Earth

60. It rains in the tropics --- lots. Brazil

61. Movements of Air masses falling air rising air falling air

62. Great deserts at around 30 degrees North and South Egypt Arizona

63. Movements of Air masses falling air rising air falling air

64. 1000 m up in elevation 6 degrees C drop in temperature Elevation and Temperature

65. Albuquerque same elevation 725 km north Denver Elevation and Temperature

67. Latitude and Temperature

68. Latitude Elevation

69. South Facing slope North Facing Slope

70. Rain Shadow

71. Rain shadow xeric face mesic face Sandia Mountains, northern New Mexico

72. World Biomes

73. Northern New Mexico Semiarid Grassland

74. Pinon-Juniper scrub land

75. World Biomes

76. Tropical Rain Forest

78. Forest canopy, Peru Tropical Rain Forest

79. Slash and burn Tropical Rain Forest

80. World Biomes

81. Savanna

82. Kenya Savanna

83. World Biomes

84. Sonoran Desert, Arizona Desert

85. World Biomes

86. Temperate Grasslands

87. World Biomes

88. Temperate Deciduous Forest

89. World Biomes

90. Taiga – Coniferous Forest

91. World Biomes

92. San Juan Wilderness area, Colorado Alpine Tundra Mount Rainier, Washington

93. Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR) Arctic Tundra

94. John Torrington, d. 1846 Permafrost

95. World Biomes

96. Distribution of Chaparral Biome

97. Southern California Coastal Chaparral

98. Mediterranean Chaparral Spain

99. Oceans

100. Ocean Currents

101. Upwellings

102. Shallow Oceans

103. Intertidal Zone

104. Estuary

105. Coral Reef

106. Open ocean

107. Deep Ocean

108. Freshwaters

109. Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russia Kiamichi River, Oklahoma

110. Oligotrophic

111. Eutrophic