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M5: Ecosystem Ecology - Primary Production Flashcards

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1
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What is the production of new organic matter?

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Primary Production

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2
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What is total production by all primary producers?

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Gross Primary Production

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3
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What are biomass available for consumers?

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Net Primary Production

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What is the production of biomass by heterotrophs?

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Secondary Production

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5
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What is a tool used to monitor the isotope to determine the feeding position of the organism?

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Trophic Level Graph

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6
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What dictate the primary production on land?

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Temperature, Moisture, Nutrients, and Precipitation

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7
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What is the total amount of water evaporating and transpiring off landscape per year?

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Actual Evapotranspiration

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What is a single nutrient limits plant growth?

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Liebig’s Law of the Minimum

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What is relationship of Nutrients and Net Primary Production (PP)?

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Directly Proportional

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10
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What shape aquatic primary production?

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Nutrient levels

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What factors in the area will result to highest rate of marine net primary production?

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Light availability, upwelling, and breakdown of organic matter

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What is the relationship of diversity and productivity?

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Directly Proportional

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13
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What organisms with shared physiological/anatomical traits?

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Functional Groups

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14
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What shapes primary production?

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Trophic Cascades

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15
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Who mentioned that consumer effect ripple throughout food web?

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Carpenter & Kitchell (1988)

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What are predation effects that alter abundance, biomass, and productivity?

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Trophic Cascade

17
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What are the two models of Trophic Cascade?

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Top-Bottom and Bottom-Up Model

18
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Where is primary production highest in terrestrial animals?

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Areas with Intermediate Grazing Pressure

19
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What is the formula for production?

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Production = Ingestion - Egestion - Excretion - Respiration

20
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What happens to the remaining energy from production?

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Growth and Reproduction

21
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What is energy transfer from one part of ecosystem to another?

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Trophic dynamics

22
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What is amount of energy conserved during trophic transfer?

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Ecological effeciency

23
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What is higher trophic levels applies pressure/influence to lower trophic levels?

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Top-Down Model

24
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What is lower trophic levels applying pressure/influence to high trophic levels?

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Bottom-Up Model

25
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How does increased in primary production affect production at levels above consumer?

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Directly Proportional

26
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In the food web, which trophic cascade have the highest amount of biomass and energy?

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Producers

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