Lecture 9: energy 2 Flashcards
What is unique about plants foraging strategies?
They are sissile, they can grow roots and leaves or move roots and leaves to locations of increases resources.
What was the barlie experiment?
They planted the barlie and then partitioned the layers of soil the plant’s roots were in and look at how plants grew there resource structures (roots) to varying levels of resource abundance.
Under homogeneous resource availability, how do plant roots grow?
They grow pretty uniformly.
What happens when the level of nutrients was higher in one location than the other around the roots?
The roots would grow more root shoots in areas with greater resources.
Why dose Potassium not show a differnt effect on the root system?
The levels of potassium given could have not been the limiting resource, so there was no need for optimal foraging.
What do Trophic/Trophy/Troph all have in common?
They all have to do with eating
What is Autotrophy?
use inorganic sources of
carbon and energy
- Photosythesis
- Chemosythesis
What is heterotrophy?
Use of organic sources of carbon and energy.
What are the two major forms of autotrophy?
Photosynthesis
Chemosythesis
What is PAR?
Photosynthetically Active Radiation
Why is PAR important?
Photosynthesis requires light. Thus, the quantity and quality of light influences photosynthesis rates.
What is Light Partitioning?
Tallest trees are adapted to high levels of light.
Medium sized trees are adapted to moderate levels of light.
Small plants are adapted to low levels of light
What happens to par as you get closer to the canopy of a forest?
It increases.
Thus it decreases the closer to the ground you go.
Within water, what wavelengths of light get absorbed, and in what order
1st. Red
2nd. orange
3rd. yellow
4th. purple
5th. green
6th(last) blue light
What is the Euphotic zone of water?
the Sunlight zone.
sunlight rarely penetrates below this layer.
rich with photosynthesis.
What is the Dysphotic zone?
(Twilight zone) Sunlight decreases rapidly with depth,
photosynthesis is not possible here.
What is the aphotic zone?
(midnight zone) Sunlight does not penetrate at all. this zone is bathed in darkness
How far can PAR penetrate in water?
100-200m only
If light was unlimited, would that mean that you would be able to unlimited absorb the resource?
No, there is always limitations.