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Flow of energy through a living system; energy is degraded w/ each step. Fig 12-3, p.238. Generalized trophic pyramid. Fig 12-6, p.241. Simplified food web. Fig 12-7, p.242. Factors that effect…. Light Temperature (among others…that you already know…). Fig 12-9, p.244.
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Flow of energy through a living system; energy is degraded w/ each step Fig 12-3, p.238
Generalized trophic pyramid Fig 12-6, p.241
Simplified food web Fig 12-7, p.242
Factors that effect… • Light • Temperature • (among others…that you already know…)
Life in the Ocean • The PELAGIC community! • A “Pelagic community” is a community of organisms that live suspended in the water column…they either float (plankton) or swim (nekton). • This is different than those that live on shore, on the bottom (etc.)
Pelagic Communitiy, Plankton And nekton Fig 13-1, p.258
Bony fish examples
Marine Mammals that live in the pelagic zone (Baleen) Fig 13-21, p.275
Marine Mammals that live in the pelagic zone (Toothed) Fig 13-21, p.276
Next… • Since we know some of the organisms that live there, we can also study their interactions (w/ each other and w/I the community structure)
Marine Ecology • The study of interactions of marine organisms with each other and with their environment
Population • A group of organisms of the same species occupying a specific area
Community • Many populations of organisms that interact with each other at a particular location
Community Composition • Physical factors • temperature, salinity, dessication, pressure • can all limit where an organism can survive • Biological factors • larval supply, competition, predation, parasitism, • can also limit where an organism can be found
Physical Factors • range of tolerance • Steno = narrow • Eury = wide or broad • Examples: • stenothermal or eurythermal • stenohaline or euryhaline
Biological Factors • Competition • Predation • Symbiosis
Competition • limited supply of resources • Intraspecific competition • between individuals of the same species • Leads to adaptation • Interspecific competition • between individuals of different species • may lead to competitive exclusion
Predation • Can also affect community structure • Allows for increased diversity when superior competitor is preferred prey
Symbiosis • the co-occurrence of two species in which the life of one is closely tied with the life of another
Symbiosis • Three types • mutualism (++) • Anemone fish, cleaner shrimp, zooxanthellae • commensalism (+0) • Pea crabs, pilotfish & shark • parasitism (+-) • roundworms