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Marine Producers

Marine Producers. What do they look like?. Look at the following slides and see if any of them pictures are familiar to you from your experiences at the beach…. IOC training Funding opportunity for training course Go to the link ». IOC training

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Marine Producers

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  1. Marine Producers

  2. What do they look like? • Look at the following slides and see if any of them pictures are familiar to you from your experiences at the beach…

  3. IOC training Funding opportunity for training courseGo to the link » IOC training Funding opportunity for training courseGo to the link » IOC training Funding opportunity for training courseGo to the link » Move Move Move

  4. What do Producers “Do for a Living” • Primary Productivity…production of organic matter by: • 1. chemosynthesis- make sugars using H2S (hydrogen Sulfide) or CH4 (methane) • 2. photosynthesis- make sugars using light

  5. Why is this so important? • Sun’s energy is transformed and available to other organisms  • Other organisms need energy for: • Reproduction • Feeding • Metabolism

  6. Importance of Primary Productivity • Oxygen • More than ½ of the oxygen we breathe comes from marine producers • Organic material primary productivity animation

  7. Importance continued • Primary Production • Shelter and nursery habitat • Food • Filtration of Water • Soil stability

  8. Nurseries and filtration of water

  9. Nurseries and filtration of water

  10. Nurseries and filtration of water mass.gov

  11. Where does primary productivity happen? http://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi/image_archive.cgi?c=CHLOROPHYLL

  12. Requirements for Photosynthesis • Pigments (chlorophyll), light, nutrients, and trace metals • Light is found in upper several hundred meters • Nutrients are found in deeper waters • Trace metals are limiting (not found in high amounts)

  13. Types of Marine Producers • Bacteria- Responsible for 30-50 % of marine primary productivity

  14. www.fas.org/irp/imint/docs/rst/Sect20/A12.html

  15. http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/education/Images/Riftia_Lutz.jpghttp://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/education/Images/Riftia_Lutz.jpg

  16. www.icm.csic.es/bio/images/mol3.jpg

  17. Algae – (protists) groups of relatively simple living aquatic organisms that photosynthesize • unicellular algae “phytoplankton” • Single celled • macroalgae- “seaweed” • Multicellular

  18. Dinoflagellates- Fire Algae

  19. Eye spots for concentrating light

  20. staffwww.fullcoll.edu/.../coccolithophore.jpg

  21. White Cliffs of Dover cache.eb.com/eb/image?id=74594&rendTypeId=4

  22. http://www-ocean.tamu.edu/Quarterdeck/QD5.2/s.apsteinii.html http://www.ucl.ac.uk/GeolSci/micropal/images/calc/calc038.gif

  23. http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Coccoliths/bering_sea.htmlhttp://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Study/Coccoliths/bering_sea.html

  24. http://epod.usra.edu/archive/epodviewer.php3?oid=35104

  25. Harmful Algae Blooms • When nutrients are available or some physical conditions of the water are good algae can bloom out of control!!!! (you can see the blooms from space) • Eventually nutrients are used up and the algae die …decomposition uses up oxygen…can suffocate organisms in that habitat

  26. Example: Red Tides • Rapid increases of dinoflagellates • Some produce deadly neurotoxins • Neurotoxins build up in food chain and can cause illness/ death when animals eat contaminated flesh

  27. In February 2002, the massive die-off and decay of algae from a nearshore harmful algal bloom (a "red tide") caused a rapid reduction in the water's dissolved oxygen concentration, driving tens of thousands of rock lobsters to "walk out of the sea" near the coastal town of Elands Bay in South Africa's Western Cape province. The lobsters in search of oxygen moved toward the breaking surf, but were stranded when the tide went out. Government and military staff attempted to save some of the lobsters, but others were collected for food. A similar stranding from a massive red-tide event occurred at Elands Bay in 1997.

  28. Last type of marine producer • Marine Plants-ex mangroves and sea grasses

  29. Juncus (rush) Spartina (cordgrass) Salicornia (glasswort)

  30. http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/solidagosemp.htmlhttp://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/solidagosemp.html

  31. http://urbanext.illinois.edu/ShrubSelector/detail_plant.cfm?PlantID=351http://urbanext.illinois.edu/ShrubSelector/detail_plant.cfm?PlantID=351

  32. http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&sugexp=gsihc&pq=prickly+pear+cactus&xhr=t&q=prickly+pear+cactus+nj&cp=20&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&wrapid=tlif130012414002010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1020&bih=578http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&sugexp=gsihc&pq=prickly+pear+cactus&xhr=t&q=prickly+pear+cactus+nj&cp=20&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&wrapid=tlif130012414002010&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1020&bih=578

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