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The Biosphere and Human Effects
Chapter 18
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18.3 Types of Land Ecosystems
Different climates support different types of plant life, which support different types of animals
Biome• Type of ecosystem that can be characterized by
its climate and dominant vegetation
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Deserts
Low rainfall produces deserts at latitudes around 30° north and south, where dry air descends
Desert• Biome where little rain falls, humidity is low, and
the main plants store water in their tissues or tap into water sources deep underground
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Desert
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Grasslands
Grasslands form at midlatitudes in the interior of continents between deserts and temperate forests
Grasslands• Biome where grasses and other low-growing
plants are adapted to warm summers, cold winters, periodic fires, and grazing animals
• Example: shortgrass and tallgrass prairies
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Chaparral
Dry shrublands (chaparral) are found in South Africa, California, and Mediterranean regions
Chaparral• Biome where cool, wet winters and hot, dry
summers support shrubs adapted to periodic fires
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Grasslands and Chaparral
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Fig. 18-5c, p. 365
Grassland, shrublands, and woodlands
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Tropical Rain Forests
At the equator, high rainfall and temperature support tropical rain forests with broadleaf trees that remain green year-round
Tropical rain forest• Species-rich tropical biome in which continual
warmth and rainfall allows dominant broadleaf trees to grow all year
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Tropical Rain Forest
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Deciduous Broadleaf Forests
Deciduous broadleaf trees are adapted to regions that cannot sustain year-round growth
Deciduous tree• A tree that drops all its leaves annually just before
a season that does not favor growth
Temperate deciduous forest• Biome dominated by trees that drop all their
leaves and go dormant during a cold winter
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Deciduous Broadleaf Forest
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Coniferous Forests
Conifer forests dominate high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere and other regions where drought, poor soil, or periodic fires prevent broadleaf trees from taking hold
Taiga (boreal forest)• Extensive northern biome dominated by conifers• A cold, dry season alternates with a cool, rainy
season
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Coniferous Forest: Siberian Taiga
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Tundra
Tundra forms at high latitudes and high altitudes
Arctic tundra• Youngest, most northerly biome, dominated by
low plants adapted to a short growing season and a layer of permanently frozen soil (permafrost)
Alpine tundra• High-altitude biome dominated by low plants
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Arctic Tundra
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Animation: Major biomes
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Animation: Environmental gradient
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18.4 Types of Aquatic Ecosystems
Composition of aquatic communities is influenced by gradients of sunlight penetration, water temperature, salinity, dissolved gases, rate of water movement, and depth
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Freshwater Ecosystems
A lake is a standing body of water• Light decreases with depth; different communities
live at different depths and distances from shore
Streams and rivers are flowing water ecosystems• Physical characteristics that vary along its length
influence the types of organisms that live in it• Fast-flowing cooler water holds more oxygen than
warmer, slower-moving water
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Marine Ecosystems
Estuary• A semi-enclosed area where nutrient-rich water
from a river mixes with seawater• Highly productive ecosystem
Seashores• Rocky shores have grazing food chains based on
algae; sandy shores have detrital food chains
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Marine Ecosystems
Benthic province• The ocean’s rocks and sediments
Pelagic province• The ocean’s open waters• In upper waters, photosynthetic organisms form
the basis of grazing food chains• Deeper communities subsist on materials that
drift down from above
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Marine Ecosystems
Coral reefs• Formation composed of secretions of coral
polyps, found in tropical, sunlit seas • Main producers are photosynthetic protists that
live inside the coral’s tissues
Coral bleaching• Stress response in which a coral expels the
photosynthetic protists in its issues
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Coral Reef and Bleaching
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Fig. 18-10a, p. 369
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Animation: Oceanic zones
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Marine Ecosystems
Seamount• An undersea mountain
Hydrothermal vent• Place where hot, mineral-rich water streams out
from an underwater opening in the Earth’s crust• Producers are prokaryotes that strip energy from
minerals
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Seamounts and Hydrothermal Vents
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Comparing Aquatic Ecosystems
In well-lit upper waters, photosynthetic producers are the base for grazing food chains
Detritus drifting down from above sustains most deep-water communities in lakes and oceans
Hydrothermal vent communities on the ocean floor are sustained by energy that prokaryotes harvest from minerals
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Animation: Lake zonation
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Animation: Lake turnover
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Animation: Rocky intertidal zones
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Animation: Three types of reefs
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Animation: Hydrothermal vent community
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Animation: Coastal upwelling
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18.5 Human Effects on the Biosphere
The increasing size of the human population and its increasing industrialization have far-reaching effects on the biosphere
Effects range from extinction of individual species to global climate change
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Increasing Species Extinctions
Humans are increasing the rate of species extinctions by degrading, destroying, and fragmenting natural habitats, by overharvesting species, and by introducing exotic species
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Increasing Species Extinctions
Endangered species• Faces extinction in all or part of its range
Threatened species• Likely to become endangered in the near future
Endemic species• Evolved in one place and is found nowhere else
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Living or Extinct?
Ivory-billed woodpecker
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Threatened Species
Habitat destruction threatens the eastern prairie fringed orchid – aquifer depletion and pollution endanger Texas blind salamanders
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Some Threatened Species
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The Global Impact of Human Activities
Human activities threaten entire ecosystems• Desertification• Deforestation• Air pollution and acid rain• Water pollution• Trash in aquatic ecosystems• Air pollution and the ozone hole• Greenhouse gases and global warming
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Desertification
Poor agricultural practices turn grasslands or woodlands into deserts• US Great Plains (the Great Dustbowl)• Sahara Desert
Desertification• Conversion of grassland or woodlands to
desertlike conditions
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Desertification
Dust from the Sahara over the Atlantic Ocean
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Deforestation
Human activities strip woodlands of trees• Flooding • Landslides
• Increases atmospheric CO2
• Decreases atmospheric oxygen
Deforestation• Removal of all trees from a large tract of land
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Deforestation
Clearing tropical forests in Brazil
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Pollution
Human activities generate pollutants that kill animals and damage ecosystems
Pollutant• Natural or man-made substance released into the
environment in greater than natural amounts, and that damages the health of organisms
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Acid Rain
Acid rain• Rainfall contaminated by acidic pollutants• Burns trees, kills fish, leaches nutrients from soil
Caused by pollutants that combine with water vapor in the atmosphere to form acids • Sulfuric acid from sulfur dioxides from coal-
burning power plants and factories • Nitric acid from nitrogen oxides from vehicles and
power plants that burn gas and oil
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Acid Rain
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Other Sources of Water Pollution
Pollution from point sources may be identified; dealing with pollution from nonpoint sources is more difficult• Industrial chemicals and heavy metals• Oil from vehicles• Runoff of fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and
animal wastes • Sewage and excreted prescription drugs• Sediments
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Some Results of Water Pollution
Bioaccumulation• Concentration of toxins such as mercury as they
move up through the food chain
Eutrophication• Nutrient enrichment by sewage and fertilizers,
resulting in toxic algal blooms or oxygen depletion
Turbidity• Clouding of water by sediment runoff, blocking
sunlight and choking animals
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The Trouble With Trash
Human activities generate plastics and other trash that kill animals and damage ecosystems• Chemicals from buried trash contaminate
groundwater• Wastes dumped or washed into the ocean
damage marine ecosystems• Plastics can persist more than 100 years
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The Trouble With Trash
More than 300 pieces of plastic fed to an albatross chick by its parents
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Air Quality
Pollution from airborne particles damages respiratory systems of humans and animals• Burning of fossil fuels and industrial processes
Some pollutants have global effects• CFCs cause thinning of the ozone layer• Rising levels of greenhouse gases contribute to
climate change
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Air Quality
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The Ozone Hole
Ozone is a pollutant near the ground, but depletion of the ozone layer is a global threat caused by the use of CFCs• Global agreement to phase out CFC use
Ozone layer• Atmospheric layer with a high concentration of
ozone that prevents much ultraviolet radiation from reaching Earth’s surface
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Ozone and CFCs
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Animation: How CFCs destroy ozone
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Global Climate Change
Climate change caused by rising concentrations of greenhouse gases is another global threat• Results in extremes in rainfall patterns and
drought, increased hurricane intensity
Global climate change• Global warming and other changes in the current
climate and weather patterns
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Evidence of a Warming World
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Causes of Climate Change
Earth’s climate normally cycles from icy to hot• Earth’s orbit changes in a 100,000 year cycle• Earth’s tilt varies in a 40,000 year cycle• Periodic changes in solar output• Occasional effects of volcanic eruptions
Recent warming is due to increase in greenhouse gases due to human activities• 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
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Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases
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Fueling Global Climate Change
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Effects of Climate Change
Increasing temperature causes sea level rise• Increased coastal erosion and flooding• Salt water contamination of freshwater aquifers
Temperature effects on biological systems• Earlier spring flowering in plants• Shifts in animal migration and breeding seasons • Ecosystems shift to higher latitudes or altitudes• Stressed aquatic systems, such as corals
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Animation: Global crises by region and habitat
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Animation: Habitat loss and fragmentation
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Animation: Humans affect biodiversity
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Animation: Formation of photochemical smog
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Animation: Chernobyl fallout
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Animation: Stream pollution
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Video: ABC News: Air pollution in China
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Video: ABC News: Beach pollution
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Video: ABC News: China computer waste
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Video: ABC News: Clean Air Act
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Video: ABC News: International report: Cooling the planet
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Video: ABC News: Desertification in China
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Video: ABC News: Global warming
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Video: ABC News: Environmental victory green decision
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Video: ABC News: Green laws
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Video: ABC News: Impacts of global warming
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Video: ABC News: International report: Global warming
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Video: ABC News: Melting ice
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Video: ABC News: Miles per gallon, requirements for automakers
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Video: ABC News: MTBE pollution
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Video: ABC News: Ozone layer depletion
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Video: ABC News: Painful painkillers
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Video: ABC News: Pharmaceuticals in water supplies
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Video: ABC News: Pollution and women‘s health
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Video: ABC News: Sports franchise going green
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Video: ABC News: Stuff that we leave behind
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Video: ABC News: Water pollution threatens millions
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Video: ABC News: U.S. forests
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Video: ABC News: Wal-Mart goes green
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18.6 Maintaining Biodiversity
Biodiversity includes diversity of genes, species, and ecosystems
Worldwide, biodiversity is declining at all levels
Biodiversity• Genetic diversity of individuals of a species,
variety of species, and variety of ecosystems
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Is Biodiversity Important?
Healthy ecosystems are essential to humans• Ecosystems produce oxygen, remove CO2,
decompose waste, provide food, prevent erosion and flooding
We benefit from biodiversity• Wild species provide medicines, reservoirs of
genetic diversity to enhance crops• Ethical reasons to preserve biodiversity
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Indicator Species
A decline in biodiversity warns us that our natural support system is in trouble
Indicator species• A species that is particularly sensitive to
environmental changes and can be monitored to assess whether an ecosystem is threatened
• Examples: lichens, mayflies
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Conservation Biology
Conservation biologists identify threatened regions with high biodiversity and prioritize which will receive protection
Conservation biology• Field of applied biology that surveys biodiversity
and seeks ways to maintain and use it
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Hot Spots
By focusing on hot spots rather than on individual species, scientists hope to maintain ecosystems that sustain biological diversity
Hot spots• Threatened regions with great biodiversity • Considered a high priority for conservation efforts• Currently 867 land regions identified by WWF
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Protecting a Hot Spot
Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica
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Ecological Restoration
Ecological restoration can help actively re-create or renew a diverse natural ecosystem that has been destroyed or degraded
Ecological restoration• Actively altering an area in an effort to restore or
create a functional ecosystem• Example: Louisiana’s coastal marshes
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Ecological Restoration
Marsh restoration project, Louisiana
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Living Sustainably
Individuals can help maintain biodiversity by using resources in a sustainable fashion• Cut consumption• Reuse and recycle materials• Reduce energy use
Sustainable development• Using resources in a way that takes into account
the needs of future generations
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Video: ABC News: Bald Eagle off endangered list
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Video: ABC News: Endangered turtles return to sea
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Video: ABC News: Natural wonders Hawaiian Islands
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Video: ABC News: Hsing Hsing dies
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Video: ABC News: Marine sanctuary
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Video: ABC News: Planet Earth 2007
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Video: ABC News: U.S. earth summit
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Video: ABC News: Penguin rescue
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Video: ABC News: Whaling
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18.7 Impacts/Issues Revisited
Arctic ice sheets are breaking up due to global climate change, making fossil fuel and mineral resources more accessible
However, extracting these resources will harm species such as the polar bear, already threatened by global climate change
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Digging into Data:Arctic PCB Pollution