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Energy Flow & Nutrient CycleEnergy Flow & Nutrient Cycle
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Food ChainsFood Chains
• Artificial devices to illustrate energy flow from one trophic level to another
• Trophic Levels: groups of organisms that obtain their energy in a similar manner
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• Total number of levels in a food chain depends upon locality and number of species
• Highest trophic levels occupied by adult animals with no predators of their own
• Secondary Production: total amount of biomass produced in all higher trophic levels
Food ChainsFood Chains
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NutrientsNutrients• Inorganic nutrients incorporated
into cells during photosynthesis- e.g. N, P, C, S
• Cyclic flow in food chains
• Decomposers release inorganic forms that become available to autotrophs again
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EnergyEnergy• Non-cyclic, unidirectional flow• Losses at each transfer from one
trophic level to another- Losses as heat from respiration- Inefficiencies in processing
• Total energy declines from one transfer to another- Limits number of trophic levels
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Energy Flow
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Primary Producer
Primary Consumer
Secondary Consumer
Tertiary Consumer
Food Chain
Decomposer
zooplankton larval fish
fish
Fungi & bacteria
Energy Flow through an EcosystemEnergy Flow through an Ecosystem
heat heatheat
phytoplankton
sun
water
Nutrients
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Transfer EfficienciesTransfer Efficiencies• Efficiency of energy transfer called
transfer efficiency
• Units are energy or biomass
Et = Pt
Pt-1
Pt = annual production at level t
Pt-1 = annual production at t-1
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Transfer Efficiency ExampleTransfer Efficiency Example• Net primary production = 150 g C/m2/yr• Herbivorous copepod production = 25 g C/m2/yr
• Typical transfer efficiency ranges*Level 1-2 ~20%*Levels 2-3, …: ~10%
Et = Pt
Pt-1
= Pcopepods
Pphytoplankton
= 25 = 0.17150
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Energy and Biomass PyramidsKaneohe Bay
1,000,000 J of sunlight
Primary producers
Tertiary consumers
Secondary consumers
Primary consumers
10,000 J Limu
1000 J
100 J
10 J
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Feces
Growth
Cellular Respiration
Algae eaten by Uhu
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Food WebsFood Webs
• Food chains don’t exist in real ecosystems
• Almost all organisms are eaten by more than one predator
• Food webs reflect these multiple and shifting interactions
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Antarctic Food Web
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Some Feeding TypesSome Feeding Types
Many species don’t fit into convenient categories• Algal Grazers and Browsers• Suspension Feeding• Filter Feeding• Deposit Feeding• Benthic Animal Predators• Plankton Pickers• Corallivores• Piscivores• Omnivores• Detritivores• Scavengers• Parasites• Cannibals• Ontogenetic dietary shifts
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Food Webs…Food Webs…
Competitive relationships in food webs can reduce productivity at top levels
Phytoplankton(100 units)
Phytoplankton(100 units)
Herbivorous Zooplankton
(20 units)
Carnivorous Zooplankton A
(2 units)
Fish (0.2 units)
Herbivorous Zooplankton
(20 units)
Carnivorous Zooplankton A
(1 units)
Fish (0.1 units)
Carnivorous Zooplankton B
(1 units)
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Recycling: The Microbial LoopRecycling: The Microbial Loop
• All organisms leak and excrete dissolved organic carbon (DOC)
• Bacteria can utilize DOC• Bacteria abundant in the euphotic
zone (~5 million/ml)• Numbers controlled by grazing due to
nanoplankton• Increases food web efficiency
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Solar Energy
Microbial Loop
CO2
nutrients
Phytoplankton
Herbivores
Planktivores
Piscivores
DOC
Bacteria Nanoplankton(protozoans)
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An Ecological Mystery
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An Ecological MysteryAn Ecological Mystery• Long-term study of sea otter populations
along the Aleutians and Western Alaska• 1970s: sea otter populations healthy and
expanding• 1990s: some populations of sea otters
were declining• Possibly due to migration rather than
mortality• 1993: 800km area in Aleutians surveyed
- Sea otter population reduced by 50%
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Vanishing Sea OttersVanishing Sea Otters
• 1997: surveys repeated• Sea otter populations had declines by 90%
- 1970: ~53,000 sea otters in survey area- 1997: ~6,000 sea otters
• Why?- Reproductive failure?- Starvation, pollution disease?
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Cause of the DeclineCause of the Decline• 1991: one researcher observed an orca
eating a sea otter• Sea lions and seals are normal prey for
orcas• Clam Lagoon inaccessible to orcas- no
decline• Decline in usual prey led to a switch to sea
otters• As few as 4 orcas feeding on otters could
account on the impact- Single orca could consume 1,825 otters/year
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What does whale poo, iron and climate change have in common?
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1. Define keystone species.2. What is the relationship between sea urchins
and sea otters?3. Why doesn’t a food chain illustrate what
really happens in ‘who-eats-who’ relationships?
4. Why are decomposers important?5. Why do animals that eat lower on the food
chain gain more energy than a top carnivore?6. Homework assignment: pick a ecosystem
and draw a food web. (E.g. coral reef, arctic, salt marsh, mangrove, estuary, deep sea…).
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