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Eugene P. Odum

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Eugene P. Odum

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  1. Eugene P. Odum http://www.biohabitats.com/ndg_newsite/newsletter/images/2008winter/Odum.jpg “The ecosystem is the basic functional unit with which we must deal since it includes both the organisms and the nonliving environment, each influencing the properties of the other and both necessary for maintenance of life as we have it on Earth.”

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  3. Early Life http://www.cactusplumbingllc.com/images/plumbing%252520pic%2525202_01.jpg “Whenever my family visited anybody I’d disappear under the house to study their plumbing.” http://researchmagazine.uga.edu/summer2002/sum02art/or_old.jpg

  4. Variations in the Heart Rate of Birds: A Study in Physiological Ecology Odum, Eugene P., 1941. Variations in the heart rate of birds: a study in physiological ecology. Ecological Monographs 11: 299-326

  5. Variations in the Heart Rate of Birds: A Study in Physiological Ecology Weight Heart Rate Odum, Eugene P., 1941. Variations in the heart rate of birds: a study in physiological ecology. Ecological Monographs 11: 299-326

  6. Variations in the Heart Rate of Birds: A Study in Physiological Ecology Odum, Eugene P., 1941. Variations in the heart rate of birds: a study in physiological ecology. Ecological Monographs 11: 299-326 http://www.photozo.com/album/showphoto.php?photo=48106 “Although the study of physiology quite logically is concerned at first with the study of the functions of various parts, organs, and systems as separate units, the ultimate aim is an understanding of their function in the organism as a whole. Furthermore, it is the physiology of the whole organism that is of the greatest interest to the ecologist in understanding how organisms are related to and function in their environments.”

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  8. 1933 The Land Ethic – Aldo Leopold “…a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.” 1935 Ecosystem as a unit of nature – Arthur Tansley. “Is man part of ‘nature’ or not?” 1942 The Trophic Dynamic Aspect of Ecology – Raymond Lindeman. Ecosystems should be examined as “as system composed of physical-chemical-biological-processes.” “If you want to understand a large scale system, you have to start with the function of the organisms in the system” -E.P. Odum

  9. Fundamentals of Ecology --- --- --- --- --- O R G A N I S M S B I O S P H E R E E C O S Y S T E M S P O P U L A T I O N S C O M M U N I T I E S O R G A N S Y S T E M S C E L L S O R G A N S T I S S U E S --- --- --- --- P R O T O P L A S M

  10. Research has been directed along 3 distinct but related lines: trophic structure and metabolism of the early stages of succession on abandoned agricultural lands (i.e. the old-field ecosystem) experiments in radiation ecology with major emphasis on the use of radio-isotopes as "metabolic tags" (to clarify nutrient cycles and energy flow) and as "population tags" (as, for example, to determine density and turnover of small organisms) measurements of relative abundance of game vertebrates as indices of the change in the region as a whole as the result of the interaction of the old-fields (one-third of the land area) and the forest areas (two-thirds of the land area). Odum, E.P., Connell, C.E., Davenport, L.B., 1962. Energy flow of three primary comsumer components of old-field ecosystems. Ecology 43:88-96

  11. Forb-Arthropod Food Chains in a One Year Experimental Field -Used Phosphorus-32 tracers to study plant-arthropod food chains. -Where Heterothecasubaxillariswas the labeled plant, 32P was transferred readily to a number of phytophagous insects and secondarily to the predator fauna. -Where only Erigeron canadensiswas tagged, there was little transfer of the isotope to the consumer populations, with the exceptions of the ant Dorymyrmex and the tree cricket Oecanthus. -Very little 32P was transferred to the detritus eaters during the 43 day period of the study. Wiegert, R.G., Odum, E.P., Schnell, J.H., 1967. Forb-Arthropod food chains in a one year experimental field. Ecology 48:75-83

  12. Forb-Arthropod Food Chains in a One Year Experimental Field “Results of this study have verified and extended the suggestion made in previous radioisotope food chain studies (Ball and Hooper 1963, Odum and Kuenzler 1963, Marples 1964) that the shape of uptake curves can be indicative of the trophic position of a population of consumers in the field. Thus, populations known to be strictly herbivorous reach a peak of radioactivity very soon after the primary producers have been labeled, while known predators such as spiders show delayed uptake at lower levels.” Wiegert, R.G., Odum, E.P., Schnell, J.H., 1967. Forb-Arthropod food chains in a one year experimental field. Ecology 48:75-83

  13. Population Energy Flow of Three Primary Consumer Components of Old-Field Ecosystems Odum, E.P., Connell, C.E., Davenport, L.B., 1962. Energy flow of three primary comsumer components of old-field ecosystems. Ecology 43:88-96

  14. Population Energy Flow of Three Primary Consumer Components of Old-Field Ecosystems Sparrow Field mice Grasshoppers/Crickets Odum, E.P., Connell, C.E., Davenport, L.B., 1962. Energy flow of three primary comsumer components of old-field ecosystems. Ecology 43:88-96

  15. Worlds first hydrogen bomb explosion, Eniwetok Atoll, 1952

  16. Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll

  17. Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll “All in all there is no better way to become impressed with the functional operation of a community than to put on a face mask and explore a coral reef.” –E. Odum, Fundamentals of Ecology

  18. Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll - Total plant tissue exceeds animal tissue by about 3 to 1 -Filamentous green algae have more biomass than zooxanthellae by about 16 to 1 Odum, H.T., Odum, E.P., 1955. Trophic structure and productivity of a windward coral reef community on Eniwetok Atoll. Ecological Monographs 25:291-320

  19. Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll • Quantitative trophic structure of the reef community set out as a pyramid of mass • The single coral is first a producer, to a lesser extent an herbivore, and somewhat a carnivore, thus giving something of a pyramid within one coral head Odum, H.T., Odum, E.P., 1955. Trophic structure and productivity of a windward coral reef community on Eniwetok Atoll. Ecological Monographs 25:291-320

  20. Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll “…As an open system , the construction of self regulating interactions has led by selective process to the survival of the stable.” • Quantitative trophic structure of the reef community set out as a pyramid of mass • The single coral is first a producer, to a lesser extent an herbivore, and somewhat a carnivore, thus giving something of a pyramid within one coral head Odum, H.T., Odum, E.P., 1955. Trophic structure and productivity of a windward coral reef community on Eniwetok Atoll. Ecological Monographs 25:291-320

  21. Trophic Structure and Productivity of a Windward Coral Reef Community on Eniwetok Atoll • Linked application of ecosystems ecology with nuclear technologies • Mutualism and stability • System characterized not by competition and growth, but by cooperation and stability

  22. The ecosystem is the basic unit of nature with which ecologists must ultimately deal • President of ESA in 1964 • Announced in Bioscience the establishment of a “new ecology” that had risen “to a front line position in man’s thinking as a consequence of the exploitation of atomic energy, the exploration of outer space, and the human population explosion.” • Defined the new ecology as a “Systems Ecology” that deals with “the structure and function of levels of organization beyond that of the individual and species”

  23. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development -Published in 1969 in Science

  24. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development P/R = Index of relative maturity of ecosystem Decrease in energy relegated to production Increase in energy relegated to maintenance http://ykonline.yksd.com/distanceedcourses/Courses/Biology/lessons/FourthQuarter/Chapter%2012/12-1/images/succession.jpg

  25. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development k-selected r-selected Decrease in energy relegated to production Increase in energy relegated to maintenance http://ykonline.yksd.com/distanceedcourses/Courses/Biology/lessons/FourthQuarter/Chapter%2012/12-1/images/succession.jpg

  26. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development P/R Approaches 1 P/B is Low P/R is < or > 1 P/B is High http://ykonline.yksd.com/distanceedcourses/Courses/Biology/lessons/FourthQuarter/Chapter%2012/12-1/images/succession.jpg

  27. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development Weblike, predominantly detritus Linear, predominantly grazing http://ykonline.yksd.com/distanceedcourses/Courses/Biology/lessons/FourthQuarter/Chapter%2012/12-1/images/succession.jpg

  28. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development http://ykonline.yksd.com/distanceedcourses/Courses/Biology/lessons/FourthQuarter/Chapter%2012/12-1/images/succession.jpg

  29. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development -“In the pioneer society, as in the pioneer ecosystem, high birth rates, rapid growth, high economic profits, and exploitation of accessible and unused resources are advantageous, but, as the saturation level is approached, these drives must be shifted to considerations of symbiosis(that is, civil rights, law and order, education, and culture), birth control, and the recycling of resources.” • -The use of nonchemical pest control agriculture • The implementation of a compartment model for landscape zoning to be supported by landscape lawyers • A reorientation of societies goals to be accomplished by instruction in ecosystems ecology beginning in elementary school.

  30. Criticism of The Strategy of Ecosystem Development -1973, William Drury and Ian Nesbit published an article called succession that challenged Odums ecosystem concept -Promoted Glesonian concept of succession

  31. Criticism of The Strategy of Ecosystem Development -Drury and Nesbit: “Most of the phenomenon of succession can be understood as a consequences of differential growth, differential survival of species adapted to growth at different points on environmental gradients. There is no strategy of ecosystem development because there is no community control over succession.”

  32. Criticism of The Strategy of Ecosystem Development

  33. Criticism of The Strategy of Ecosystem Development -Ecosystems do not function through feedbacks and are not integrated wholes.

  34. Criticism of The Strategy of Ecosystem Development

  35. The Pulsing Paradigm • -Abandoned the term homeostasis • Began using the term homeorhesis • - derived from the Greek word rheos for “stream” or “current” and means maintenance of flow

  36. Non-Set-Point Control

  37. Non-Set-Point Control Solar Radiation Oxygen Vegetation Decomposers Ecosystem

  38. Set-Point Control

  39. Set-Point Control Information Hormones Thyroid Gland Metabolism

  40. Retirement -Retired from the University of Georgia in 1984

  41. Retirement -Retired from the University of Georgia in 1984

  42. Retirement -Retired from the University of Georgia in 1984

  43. Retirement -The ecosystem is a thermodynamically open system -Ecosystems maintain stability by internal feedback -Natural selection can occur at the level of the group and it involves mutualism as well as interorganismal competition -Mutualism increases when resources are scarce -Ecosystem development is a 2 phase process, where in the 2nd stage the ecosystem is self organized -Since the beginning of life on earth, organisms have not only adapted to physical conditions, but have modified the environment in ways that have proven beneficial to life in general

  44. Books -Fundamentals of Ecology -Ecology -Basic Ecology -Ecology and Our Endangered Life Support Systems -Ecological Vignettes: Ecological -Approaches to Dealing with Human Predicament -Essence of Place (co-authored with Martha Odum) -Microsoft academic search lists 65 publications and 6756 author citations

  45. References Craige, Betty Jean 2002. Eugene Odum: Ecosystems Ecologist and Environmentalist. University of Georgia Press, ISBN-10: 0820324736 Engelberg, J., Boyarsky, L.L., 1979. The Noncybernetic Nature of Ecosystems. The American Naturalist 114:317-324 Odum, Eugene P., 1941. Variations in the heart rate of birds: a study in physiological ecology. Ecological Monographs 11: 299-326 Odum, E.P., Connell, C.E., Davenport, L.B., 1962. Energy flow of three primary comsumer components of old-field ecosystems. Ecology 43:88-96 Odum, H.T., Odum, E.P., 1955. Trophic structure and productivity of a windward coral reef community on Eniwetok Atoll. Ecological Monographs 25:291-320 Odum, E.P., 1969. The Strategy of Ecosystem Development. Science 164: 262-270 Odum, E.P., 1992. Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990’s. Bioscience 42: 542-545 Patten, B.C., Odum, E.P., 1981. The Cybernetic Nature of Ecosystems. The American Naturalist 118:886-895 Wiegert, R.G., Odum, E.P., Schnell, J.H., 1967. Forb-Arthropod food chains in a one year experimental field. Ecology 48:75-83

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