Test #2 Results by Next Week

1. Test #2 Results by Next Week

2. PREDATOR Striped tuna, Bluefin tuna Marlin Sei whale Manta ray, Ray Pacific Mackeral Spotted Dolphin Sailfish Blue Shark Deepwater crab Wahoo PREY Sardines Flying fish Surgeonfish eggs Yellowfin tuna eggs PLANKTON NUTRIENTS From Friday’s The Blue Planet • Sunfish with half-moon fish and seagull • Fish with flotsam

3. The Marine Food Web

4. Chapter 10: Biological Productivity

5. Conditions for Life in the Sea Consider the main biochemical reaction for life in the sea, and on earth in general: 6H2O + 6CO2 + energy + nutrients = C6H12O6 + 6O2 Focus on left side of equation What is in short supply in the sea and thus limits the amount of life in the ocean??

6. Absorbing Nutrients6H2O + 6CO2 + energy + nutrients = C6H12O6 + 6O2 • Phytoplankton are base of the food chain • Most important primary producers of complex sugars and oxygen Lauderia sp.

7. The Marine Food Web

8. Absorbing Nutrients • Nutrients absorbed by plants through diffusion across a semi-permeable membrane Lauderia sp.

9. Diffusion:molecules move from high to low concentrations

10. Which Nutrients are in Short Supply? • Nitrogen (N) as Nitrate NO3(-2) • Phosphorus (P) as Phosphate PO4(-2) • Silicon (Si) as Silicate SiO4(-2)

11. Phosphate and Nitrate in the Pacific

12. Silicate in the Pacific

13. Biolimiting Nutrients • N, P, and Si are exhausted first in Eq. surface waters during photosynthesis • Essential to the growth of phytoplankton • If these biolimiting nutrients increase in sea water, life increases • If these biolimiting nutrients decrease in sea water, life decreases • Where would you expect to find the highest biomass in the Pacific??

14. CZCS Global Primary Production

15. How Does Nutrient Distribution Compare w/Dissolved Oxygen?

16. Dissolved O2 Reverse of Nutrients • O2 is high in the surface and mixed layer • O2 decreases to a minimum at base of thermocline • O2 then steadily increases with depth

17. Why is the Concentration of Oxygen High in the Mixed Layer?? Hint #1: How and where is oxygen produced in the sea??? 6H2O + 6CO2 + energy + nutrients = C6H12O6 + 6O2 Hint #2: How can oxygen be mixed downward from the atmosphere into the ocean?

18. How is Oxygen Removed from the Thermocline & Slightly Below??

19. Dead and decaying organic matter sinks downward from surface waters • Rate of sinking decreases as it encounters the cold, dense water of the thermocline • Material decays (oxidizes) at the thermocline, which strips O2 out of the water and returns nutrients to the sea • Cold, nutrient-rich water of the thermocline is returned to sunlit surface waters by way of upwelling

20. CZCS Global Primary Production

21. Marine Ecology Chapter 9

22. Basic Ecology • physical and chemical parameters affecting distribution and abundance • An ecosystem includes both the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) portions of the environment. • Examples include: salt marshes, estuaries, coral reefs, the North Pacific Gyre.

23. Classification of Organisms by Environment • horizontal: neritic | oceanic • vertical: • epipelagic (top) / euphotic (good) • mesopelagic (middle) / disphotic (low) • bathypelagic (deep) / aphotic (without) • abyssopelagic (“bottomless”)

24. Divisions of the Marine EnvironmentFigure 9-1

25. Classification of Organismsby Lifestyle • Scientists have established another classification scheme to categorize biota on the basis of lifestyle. The major groups are: • plankton (floaters) • nekton (swimmers) • benthos (bottom dwellers)

26. Plankton • weak swimmers, drifters, unable to counteract currents. • Phytoplankton (plants) • Zooplankton (animals)

27. Nekton • active swimmers capable of counteracting currents. • Fish • Squids • Reptiles • Birds • Mammals

28. Distribution of Marine Lifestyles • 16.7% of Earth’s animals are marine • 2% inhabit pelagic environment (most of the oceans are cold and dark) • 98% are benthic!

29. Benthos • Epiflora or epifauna live on the sea bottom. • Infauna live in the sea bottom. • Benthic plants - restricted to shallow waters (light) • Benthic animals occur everywhere from shallow depths to the deep sea.

30. Research Video Clips:“Live fast, die young...”

31. Basic Ecology • physical and chemical parameters affecting distribution and abundance • an ecosystem includes both the living (biotic) and non-living (abiotic) portions of the environment. • Temperature, salinity …

32. Hydrostatic Pressure • Pressure caused by the height of water. • Function of water height and water density • Pressure generally increases at a rate of 1 atm per 10 m of water. ( or 16 psi per 10 m depth)

33. Think You’re Under Pressure Now?

34. Hydrostatic Pressure(Cont.) • enormous in the deep sea yet animals live there. • Animals do not contain gases. • However, mesopelagic fishwhich have gas-filled swim bladders to help maintain neutral buoyancy • unable to move rapidly between depths • pressure change could cause bladder explode.

35. Be here by 7:15 a.m. 7:30 - Busses leave from Wilkinson lot 8:30 - Seal Rock volcanic rocks and tide pools 10:00 - Travel to HMSC 10:30 - HMSC Visitor Center 12:00 - Lunch on HMSC grass (bring your own) 12:30ish - Return to Corvallis Back by ~2:00 Oregon Coast Field Trip - Sat., June 2nd dusk.geo.orst.edu/oceans/field.html

36. Required Field Trip Guidedusk.geo.orst.edu/oceans/field.html • Answers to bolded questions in guide • Turn assignment in to your TA • Due by 5:00 p.m., June 8th • This constitutes LAB 9