DG - FSU Biology - Florida State University
... Puerto Rico (A. pallida) all harbored zooxanthellae belonging to Symbiodinium clade B, as determined by restriction fragment length polymorphism of nuclear small subunit (n18S)-rDNA. In contrast, A. pallida from the Florida Keys usually host Symbiodinium belonging to clade A. Sampling in Florida in ...
... Puerto Rico (A. pallida) all harbored zooxanthellae belonging to Symbiodinium clade B, as determined by restriction fragment length polymorphism of nuclear small subunit (n18S)-rDNA. In contrast, A. pallida from the Florida Keys usually host Symbiodinium belonging to clade A. Sampling in Florida in ...
Role of Marine Microbes in Carbon and Nutrient Cycles
... zooplankton involving several organisms feeding on each other. We also know that active benthic filter-feeding organisms like mussels or passive suspension feeders like gorgonian corals can use bacterial production and thus become an effective carbon linkage between planktonic and benthic aquatic su ...
... zooplankton involving several organisms feeding on each other. We also know that active benthic filter-feeding organisms like mussels or passive suspension feeders like gorgonian corals can use bacterial production and thus become an effective carbon linkage between planktonic and benthic aquatic su ...
Review sheet for Midterm #2
... How does evaporation relate to both water balance and thermal balance in organisms? How are different approaches to this link exemplified by cicadas and scorpions in desert environments? How does evaporation/transpiration relate to photosynthesis in plants? What is the difference between vapor-limit ...
... How does evaporation relate to both water balance and thermal balance in organisms? How are different approaches to this link exemplified by cicadas and scorpions in desert environments? How does evaporation/transpiration relate to photosynthesis in plants? What is the difference between vapor-limit ...
Intro to Ecology Classwork Name
... Decide if each scenario will result in a population increase or decrease. 1. ____________________Hawks prey on squirrels. If the hawk population increases, what will happen to the squirrel population? 2. ____________________Two different species of barnacles, Chthamalus and Balanus, are competing fo ...
... Decide if each scenario will result in a population increase or decrease. 1. ____________________Hawks prey on squirrels. If the hawk population increases, what will happen to the squirrel population? 2. ____________________Two different species of barnacles, Chthamalus and Balanus, are competing fo ...
LISS Newsletter: Invasive Species (Summer 2012) (pdf)
... provides potential habitat from the southern tip of Florida into Nova Scotia. Whether these opportunities are realized depends, in part, on other physical and biological factors that may constrain its distribution. Currently, Asian shore crabs can be found from North Carolina to Maine. The successfu ...
... provides potential habitat from the southern tip of Florida into Nova Scotia. Whether these opportunities are realized depends, in part, on other physical and biological factors that may constrain its distribution. Currently, Asian shore crabs can be found from North Carolina to Maine. The successfu ...
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Estuaries - New Jersey City University [NJCU]
... • These estuaries have no fresh water input from rivers and are in a region of high evaporation. • Surface salinity does not decrease from the ocean to the inner estuary, but water loss from evaporation leads to a salinity increase as the inner end of the estuary is approached • This results in a de ...
... • These estuaries have no fresh water input from rivers and are in a region of high evaporation. • Surface salinity does not decrease from the ocean to the inner estuary, but water loss from evaporation leads to a salinity increase as the inner end of the estuary is approached • This results in a de ...
для самостоятельной работы - Кубанский государственный
... moderately pure, and they cannot survive, if water contains toxic chemicals or harmful microorganisms. Water pollution kills large quantity of fish, birds, and other animals, in some cases killing everything in an affected area. Pollution makes streams, lakes, and coastal waters unpleasant to swim i ...
... moderately pure, and they cannot survive, if water contains toxic chemicals or harmful microorganisms. Water pollution kills large quantity of fish, birds, and other animals, in some cases killing everything in an affected area. Pollution makes streams, lakes, and coastal waters unpleasant to swim i ...
ppt
... Hare populations are co-limited by food availability & predation (e.g., Keith 1983); hares rapidly deplete food quantity (principally buds & young stems of shrubs & saplings) & quality (hares stimulate induced defenses of food plants) Low food availability increases susceptibility to predation (lynx ...
... Hare populations are co-limited by food availability & predation (e.g., Keith 1983); hares rapidly deplete food quantity (principally buds & young stems of shrubs & saplings) & quality (hares stimulate induced defenses of food plants) Low food availability increases susceptibility to predation (lynx ...
Self-organization and the Emergence of Complexity in Ecological
... plains the regularities in the distribution of the abundances of species, the relative size of individuals, and the nutrient cycles that sustain us and all of the biotic world? Ecosystems and the biosphere are complex adaptive systems, heterogeneous assemblages of individual agents that interact loc ...
... plains the regularities in the distribution of the abundances of species, the relative size of individuals, and the nutrient cycles that sustain us and all of the biotic world? Ecosystems and the biosphere are complex adaptive systems, heterogeneous assemblages of individual agents that interact loc ...
Top predator control of plant biodiversity and productivity in an old
... Connecticut, USA. Overall, this system contains 18 species of plants, although fewer coexist locally. Sampling, by clipping 50, 1 m2 plots, sorting plants to species, drying at 60 "C and weighing revealed that the dominant (>90.6% biomass) species are the herbs Solidago rugosa, S. graminifolia, Pote ...
... Connecticut, USA. Overall, this system contains 18 species of plants, although fewer coexist locally. Sampling, by clipping 50, 1 m2 plots, sorting plants to species, drying at 60 "C and weighing revealed that the dominant (>90.6% biomass) species are the herbs Solidago rugosa, S. graminifolia, Pote ...
Chapter I - Aquatic Plant Management
... stabilization and create a thriving habitat for animals. Emergent plants can help filter runoff from uplands to protect lake water quality. Their roots create complex networks that stabilize sediments at the water’s edge where buffeting waves might otherwise erode the lakeshore. These plant beds are ...
... stabilization and create a thriving habitat for animals. Emergent plants can help filter runoff from uplands to protect lake water quality. Their roots create complex networks that stabilize sediments at the water’s edge where buffeting waves might otherwise erode the lakeshore. These plant beds are ...
Resource-driven terrestrial interaction webs
... the host, and these parasitoids are again specialists on an insect species and on a certain life stage of the insect: eggs, young larvae, grown larvae or pupae. Host insects may live in sun or shade or in moist or dry sites, and parasitoids and arthropod predators respond to this kind of heterogenei ...
... the host, and these parasitoids are again specialists on an insect species and on a certain life stage of the insect: eggs, young larvae, grown larvae or pupae. Host insects may live in sun or shade or in moist or dry sites, and parasitoids and arthropod predators respond to this kind of heterogenei ...
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... butterfly population by cutting down trees so they cannot live in them for survival during the winter months. ...
... butterfly population by cutting down trees so they cannot live in them for survival during the winter months. ...
040-Thoney - International Aquarium Forum
... disappeared over the last decade. Not one rainbow parrotfish was identified during the survey work. Overfishing is most likely the cause of their disappearance. With fewer grazers present macro-algae are able to establish themselves, and once established they are not eaten by any of the common fishe ...
... disappeared over the last decade. Not one rainbow parrotfish was identified during the survey work. Overfishing is most likely the cause of their disappearance. With fewer grazers present macro-algae are able to establish themselves, and once established they are not eaten by any of the common fishe ...
Fishes of southern South America: a story driven by temperature
... environments, the relationship between air temperature and water temperature is much more complex. For example, due to the drainage of freshwater from lower to higher latitudes, water temperature is 2–4°C warmer than air temperature in the Paraná-Paraguay basin (Menni and Gómez 1995), while Andean ...
... environments, the relationship between air temperature and water temperature is much more complex. For example, due to the drainage of freshwater from lower to higher latitudes, water temperature is 2–4°C warmer than air temperature in the Paraná-Paraguay basin (Menni and Gómez 1995), while Andean ...
APES Fall Semester Peer Review
... D) broad, number of critical factors B) narrow, number of physical factors E) broad, critical factor C) average, number of physical factors Use the following to answer questions 57-58: A species can withstand a narrow range of temperature. Above 100°F there are no species present. In the range from ...
... D) broad, number of critical factors B) narrow, number of physical factors E) broad, critical factor C) average, number of physical factors Use the following to answer questions 57-58: A species can withstand a narrow range of temperature. Above 100°F there are no species present. In the range from ...
Long Island Sound Resource Guide
... Meeting the Needs for Survival Space is an important resource. Everything competes for space, but adaptations can reduce direct competition for the same space. While you are looking at the periwinkle snails, observe the rocks carefully during mid to low tide. Space in the rocky intertidal zone is im ...
... Meeting the Needs for Survival Space is an important resource. Everything competes for space, but adaptations can reduce direct competition for the same space. While you are looking at the periwinkle snails, observe the rocks carefully during mid to low tide. Space in the rocky intertidal zone is im ...
Ecology - Cloudfront.net
... capacity, organisms die off – Carrying capacity is determined by limiting factors ...
... capacity, organisms die off – Carrying capacity is determined by limiting factors ...
Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative-Asian - Huron
... WHEREAS, including the invasive carp, there are 39 invasive species in the two basins that present a threat to cross over into the other basin in the near future; WHEREAS, once an invasive species establishes itself in an ecosystem, it is exceedingly difficult to eradicate it, and it often inflicts ...
... WHEREAS, including the invasive carp, there are 39 invasive species in the two basins that present a threat to cross over into the other basin in the near future; WHEREAS, once an invasive species establishes itself in an ecosystem, it is exceedingly difficult to eradicate it, and it often inflicts ...
New record of anuran predation by Trachops cirrhosus (Mammalia
... and nocturnal hylid frog, and occurs in continuous forest, distributed in the Amazonian regions of Brazil and Colombia, French Guiana, Surinam and presumably to be found in Amazonian Venezuela and the remainder of the Guianas (FROST, 2016). The males mainly call at night from perches a ...
... and nocturnal hylid frog, and occurs in continuous forest, distributed in the Amazonian regions of Brazil and Colombia, French Guiana, Surinam and presumably to be found in Amazonian Venezuela and the remainder of the Guianas (FROST, 2016). The males mainly call at night from perches a ...
04 Lab Review PPT
... time interval between 10 and 20 minutes. c. Account for the differences in oxygen consumption observed between: 1. germinating seeds at 22°C and at 10°C 2. germinating seeds and dry seeds. d. Describe the essential features of an experimental apparatus that could be used to measure oxygen consumptio ...
... time interval between 10 and 20 minutes. c. Account for the differences in oxygen consumption observed between: 1. germinating seeds at 22°C and at 10°C 2. germinating seeds and dry seeds. d. Describe the essential features of an experimental apparatus that could be used to measure oxygen consumptio ...
Top-predator abundance and chaos in tritrophic food chains
... Nonlinear models and laboratory experiments suggest that populations can be chaotic, whereas field data show that a fair proportion of observed populations are not too far from being chaotic. Thus, a natural question arises: do ecosystems enjoy special properties at the edge of chaos? By limiting th ...
... Nonlinear models and laboratory experiments suggest that populations can be chaotic, whereas field data show that a fair proportion of observed populations are not too far from being chaotic. Thus, a natural question arises: do ecosystems enjoy special properties at the edge of chaos? By limiting th ...