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... The hake size structure was based on the population size structure estimated from the length frequencies recorded at each trawl station. The length frequency sample of each trawl was weighted to the total hake catch of the trawl, to the stratum, to the sub-area and finally to the total covered area ...
... The hake size structure was based on the population size structure estimated from the length frequencies recorded at each trawl station. The length frequency sample of each trawl was weighted to the total hake catch of the trawl, to the stratum, to the sub-area and finally to the total covered area ...
trophic roles and ecological functions provided by a
... mussels change what nutrients are limiting algal productivity in rivers, thus influencing water quality. Q3: How do native mussels influence stream food webs? Are materials provided by mussels energetically linked to other organisms and/or higher trophic levels (e.g. fish, turtles)? Food webs link e ...
... mussels change what nutrients are limiting algal productivity in rivers, thus influencing water quality. Q3: How do native mussels influence stream food webs? Are materials provided by mussels energetically linked to other organisms and/or higher trophic levels (e.g. fish, turtles)? Food webs link e ...
Relationships Within Ecosystems
... competition demand for resources, such as food, water, and shelter, in short supply in a community ...
... competition demand for resources, such as food, water, and shelter, in short supply in a community ...
and high-diversity planktonic food webs
... were less affected by the extreme environment than metazoans, we predict that food web traits dominated by microorganisms such as bacterial and primary production are less altered than metazoan dominated traits, such as consumer composition, top-down control by higher trophic levels, predator–prey w ...
... were less affected by the extreme environment than metazoans, we predict that food web traits dominated by microorganisms such as bacterial and primary production are less altered than metazoan dominated traits, such as consumer composition, top-down control by higher trophic levels, predator–prey w ...
INDIRECT EFFECTS OF A TOP PREDATOR ON A RAIN FOREST
... the accumulation of new plant species highest in control plots on rich soils. The cumulative effect of top predators interacted with plant resources, such that plant species richness was suppressed when beetles were present in understory communities on rich soils. Patterns of herbivore damage sugges ...
... the accumulation of new plant species highest in control plots on rich soils. The cumulative effect of top predators interacted with plant resources, such that plant species richness was suppressed when beetles were present in understory communities on rich soils. Patterns of herbivore damage sugges ...
Hoo eats who? The New Jersey Barn Owl Food Chain
... The state of New Jersey recently began testing a new pesticide on area farmland. The pesticide was sprayed on crops in order to reduce the insect population that was eating the plants. However, no one thought to test the effects the pesticide might have on the areas small mammal population. These sm ...
... The state of New Jersey recently began testing a new pesticide on area farmland. The pesticide was sprayed on crops in order to reduce the insect population that was eating the plants. However, no one thought to test the effects the pesticide might have on the areas small mammal population. These sm ...
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... The state of New Jersey recently began testing a new pesticide on area farmland. The pesticide was sprayed on crops in order to reduce the insect population that was eating the plants. However, no one thought to test the effects the pesticide might have on the areas small mammal population. These sm ...
... The state of New Jersey recently began testing a new pesticide on area farmland. The pesticide was sprayed on crops in order to reduce the insect population that was eating the plants. However, no one thought to test the effects the pesticide might have on the areas small mammal population. These sm ...
Chaos and closure terms in plankton food chain models
... Models of plankton food chains [see Steele and Henderson (1981), Evans and Parslow (1985), Wroblewski et al. (1988) and Fasham et al. (1990) for typical examples] are usually assembled from three components: (i) source terms that describe the input of nutrients or the dynamics of basal species, whic ...
... Models of plankton food chains [see Steele and Henderson (1981), Evans and Parslow (1985), Wroblewski et al. (1988) and Fasham et al. (1990) for typical examples] are usually assembled from three components: (i) source terms that describe the input of nutrients or the dynamics of basal species, whic ...
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... in the development of more effective environmental assessment and management procedures. Although various components of the Long Island Sound (LIS) ecosystem have been studied in some detail, a framework for food web based research has been lacking. The objectives of this study were to: a) collect a ...
... in the development of more effective environmental assessment and management procedures. Although various components of the Long Island Sound (LIS) ecosystem have been studied in some detail, a framework for food web based research has been lacking. The objectives of this study were to: a) collect a ...
Unit 1 Review
... • Many human activities can influence the carbon cycle Since the start of the Industrial Revolution (160 years ago), CO2 levels have increased by 30% from the increased burning of fossil fuels. The increase in CO2 levels in the previous 160 000 years was 1% - 3% Carbon is being removed from lo ...
... • Many human activities can influence the carbon cycle Since the start of the Industrial Revolution (160 years ago), CO2 levels have increased by 30% from the increased burning of fossil fuels. The increase in CO2 levels in the previous 160 000 years was 1% - 3% Carbon is being removed from lo ...
2009 Ecology TEST - NC Science Olympiad
... 9. Which of the following are true about grasslands? Choose all that apply a. They can support a high density of grazing animals (2 pts) b. There are more high trophic level predators than mid-level (2 pts for NOT choosing) c. Grasses are wind-pollinated plants (2 pts) d. They lack shelter from pred ...
... 9. Which of the following are true about grasslands? Choose all that apply a. They can support a high density of grazing animals (2 pts) b. There are more high trophic level predators than mid-level (2 pts for NOT choosing) c. Grasses are wind-pollinated plants (2 pts) d. They lack shelter from pred ...
The Role of Pinnipeds in the Ecosystem - Zoology, UBC
... Ecosystems and Ecosystem Roles Ecosystems are dynamic systems where physical, chemical and biological processes interplay (Mann and Lazier 1991). There are basically two types of marine ecosystems: deep sea and shelf areas (Laevastu et al. 1996). Shelves are dominated by zooplankton, benthos, fish ...
... Ecosystems and Ecosystem Roles Ecosystems are dynamic systems where physical, chemical and biological processes interplay (Mann and Lazier 1991). There are basically two types of marine ecosystems: deep sea and shelf areas (Laevastu et al. 1996). Shelves are dominated by zooplankton, benthos, fish ...
Teacher: Jeannie Sparks Grade: 12th e. Science For the Week of
... organisms in local ecosystem and compare to other ecosystems ...
... organisms in local ecosystem and compare to other ecosystems ...
How Communities Evolve - New England Complex Systems Institute
... The continuous arrival of radiant energy from the sun, which is transformed into plant resources, keeps the system thermodynamically far from equilibrium, and the feedback relations between groups result in non-linear dynamics in the system. Both things together lead the trajectories to converge int ...
... The continuous arrival of radiant energy from the sun, which is transformed into plant resources, keeps the system thermodynamically far from equilibrium, and the feedback relations between groups result in non-linear dynamics in the system. Both things together lead the trajectories to converge int ...
Ecology
... Name an ecosystem that you have investigated and give an example of an abiotic factor that influences the distribution of a named plant in the ecosystem. In the case of your named ecosystem give an example of a biotic factor that influences the distribution of a named animal. What is meant by a pyra ...
... Name an ecosystem that you have investigated and give an example of an abiotic factor that influences the distribution of a named plant in the ecosystem. In the case of your named ecosystem give an example of a biotic factor that influences the distribution of a named animal. What is meant by a pyra ...
Eurasia Wilds
... The Toronto Zoo’s Education Branch is pleased to provide you with Self-guided Tour: Eurasia Wilds – Junior, a resource package designed to support the educational component of your self-guided field trip and enhance your students’ learning. The questions and information provided in this resource pac ...
... The Toronto Zoo’s Education Branch is pleased to provide you with Self-guided Tour: Eurasia Wilds – Junior, a resource package designed to support the educational component of your self-guided field trip and enhance your students’ learning. The questions and information provided in this resource pac ...
- Miguel A. Fortuna
... 2005), social networks of acquaintance or other connections between individuals (Newman, Watts, & Strogatz 2002; Liben-Nowell et al. 2005), scienti c collaboration networks (Newman 2001; Barabási et al., 2002), the network of human sexual contacts (Liljeros et al. 2001), metabolic networks (Jeong et ...
... 2005), social networks of acquaintance or other connections between individuals (Newman, Watts, & Strogatz 2002; Liben-Nowell et al. 2005), scienti c collaboration networks (Newman 2001; Barabási et al., 2002), the network of human sexual contacts (Liljeros et al. 2001), metabolic networks (Jeong et ...
In search of operational trophospecies in a tropical aquatic ,food web
... second generation of data, these webs tend to contain more taxa and greater taxonomic resolution than the first generation data. Even if full resolution at the specieslevel were possible within a food web, some degree of aggregation would be desirable. Fully resolved food webs would be too complex t ...
... second generation of data, these webs tend to contain more taxa and greater taxonomic resolution than the first generation data. Even if full resolution at the specieslevel were possible within a food web, some degree of aggregation would be desirable. Fully resolved food webs would be too complex t ...
`wasp-waist` food webs
... prime area where terrestrial ecologists could learn from their marine colleagues to better understand the role of key consumers in the food web. Top-down control, as defined above, refers to an animal grazing down its food. However, due to the aggregations and high biomasses of wasp-waist species, t ...
... prime area where terrestrial ecologists could learn from their marine colleagues to better understand the role of key consumers in the food web. Top-down control, as defined above, refers to an animal grazing down its food. However, due to the aggregations and high biomasses of wasp-waist species, t ...
Habitat loss, trophic collapse, and the decline of ecosystem services
... long-term surveys of ecosystem recovery on Krakatau suggest that food webs and ecosystems will restructure themselves from the bottom up (Thornton et al. 1988, Thornton 1996); the island was first colonized by plants, then herbivores, and only after 50 years were there sufficient resources for predato ...
... long-term surveys of ecosystem recovery on Krakatau suggest that food webs and ecosystems will restructure themselves from the bottom up (Thornton et al. 1988, Thornton 1996); the island was first colonized by plants, then herbivores, and only after 50 years were there sufficient resources for predato ...
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production as An
... The species-energy theory has been shown to be an extension of species-areatheory (37), which relies on the theory of islandbiogeography by MacArthur and Wilson (39). The core of this theory is that the number of species on an island is a steady state between immigration (and speciation) and extinct ...
... The species-energy theory has been shown to be an extension of species-areatheory (37), which relies on the theory of islandbiogeography by MacArthur and Wilson (39). The core of this theory is that the number of species on an island is a steady state between immigration (and speciation) and extinct ...
The Effects of Spatial Scale on Trophic Interactions
... is finer than the extent of its habitat. Hence, the grain and extent define the lower and upper limits of a spatial scale range along which a consumer exploits the environment, which we will from now on refer to as the ‘‘functional range’’ of the consumer. In Figure 1, we have arbitrarily depicted t ...
... is finer than the extent of its habitat. Hence, the grain and extent define the lower and upper limits of a spatial scale range along which a consumer exploits the environment, which we will from now on refer to as the ‘‘functional range’’ of the consumer. In Figure 1, we have arbitrarily depicted t ...
Sequentially assembled food webs and extremum principles in
... The parameter ri is an intrinsic rate at which the biomass density of i changes. The parameter cij describes the effect of a unit biomass of species j on a unit biomass of i per unit time; cij has a simple relationship to the more familiar parameter aij of the generalized Lotka–Volterra equations of ...
... The parameter ri is an intrinsic rate at which the biomass density of i changes. The parameter cij describes the effect of a unit biomass of species j on a unit biomass of i per unit time; cij has a simple relationship to the more familiar parameter aij of the generalized Lotka–Volterra equations of ...
Food web
A food web (or food cycle) is the natural interconnection of food chains and generally a graphical representation (usually an image) of what-eats-what in an ecological community. Another name for food web is a consumer-resource system. Ecologists can broadly lump all life forms into one of two categories called trophic levels: 1) the autotrophs, and 2) the heterotrophs. To maintain their bodies, grow, develop, and to reproduce, autotrophs produce organic matter from inorganic substances, including both minerals and gases such as carbon dioxide. These chemical reactions require energy, which mainly comes from the sun and largely by photosynthesis, although a very small amount comes from hydrothermal vents and hot springs. A gradient exists between trophic levels running from complete autotrophs that obtain their sole source of carbon from the atmosphere, to mixotrophs (such as carnivorous plants) that are autotrophic organisms that partially obtain organic matter from sources other than the atmosphere, and complete heterotrophs that must feed to obtain organic matter. The linkages in a food web illustrate the feeding pathways, such as where heterotrophs obtain organic matter by feeding on autotrophs and other heterotrophs. The food web is a simplified illustration of the various methods of feeding that links an ecosystem into a unified system of exchange. There are different kinds of feeding relations that can be roughly divided into herbivory, carnivory, scavenging and parasitism. Some of the organic matter eaten by heterotrophs, such as sugars, provides energy. Autotrophs and heterotrophs come in all sizes, from microscopic to many tonnes - from cyanobacteria to giant redwoods, and from viruses and bdellovibrio to blue whales.Charles Elton pioneered the concept of food cycles, food chains, and food size in his classical 1927 book ""Animal Ecology""; Elton's 'food cycle' was replaced by 'food web' in a subsequent ecological text. Elton organized species into functional groups, which was the basis for Raymond Lindeman's classic and landmark paper in 1942 on trophic dynamics. Lindeman emphasized the important role of decomposer organisms in a trophic system of classification. The notion of a food web has a historical foothold in the writings of Charles Darwin and his terminology, including an ""entangled bank"", ""web of life"", ""web of complex relations"", and in reference to the decomposition actions of earthworms he talked about ""the continued movement of the particles of earth"". Even earlier, in 1768 John Bruckner described nature as ""one continued web of life"".Food webs are limited representations of real ecosystems as they necessarily aggregate many species into trophic species, which are functional groups of species that have the same predators and prey in a food web. Ecologists use these simplifications in quantitative (or mathematical) models of trophic or consumer-resource systems dynamics. Using these models they can measure and test for generalized patterns in the structure of real food web networks. Ecologists have identified non-random properties in the topographic structure of food webs. Published examples that are used in meta analysis are of variable quality with omissions. However, the number of empirical studies on community webs is on the rise and the mathematical treatment of food webs using network theory had identified patterns that are common to all. Scaling laws, for example, predict a relationship between the topology of food web predator-prey linkages and levels of species richness.