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Early-arriving species may link to later-arriving ones in three ways

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Facilitate- making environment more favorable
Inhibit
Tolerate

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A plot of the annual mean temperature and precipitation in a particular region

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Climograph

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Tropical Forest

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Rain forest: 200-400 cm rain
Dry forest: 150-200
High temperature, little seasonal variation
Layers plants
High animal diversity

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Desert

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Less than 30cm rain
High tenp generally but varies seasonally and daily
Widely scattered plants

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Savanna

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Long dry seasons, 20-50 cm rain
Warm year-round but slightly more seasonal variation
Scattered trees

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Chaparral

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Rainy winters and dry summers. Middle of earth halves
Moderate seasonal variation
Shrubs and small trees

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Characteristic changes during succession

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More species (diveristy)
More organisms (abundance)
R-relected to K-selected

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Gross primary production GPP

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All of the energy captured from photosynthesis

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Net primary production NPP

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GPP minus energy used for producer respiration and metabolism

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Gradient between terrestrial biomes

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Ectones

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Limits of Aquatic ecosystems

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Nitrogen and phosphorous

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The amount of a nutrients that a plant can absorb

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Critical load

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Excessive runoff, things die, more decomposers, less oxygen and more things die, more decomposwrs, ect.

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Cultural eutriphication

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Fossil fules effect on water

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Burning fossil files cause CO2
25% of human CO2 absorbed by ooceans
CO2 poisons water - Ocean acidification

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Template Grassland

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Highly seasonal, dry winters and wet summers.
30-100 cm
Periodically drought common
Grasses and forbs

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Northern coniferous forest

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Largest terrestrial biome
Cold winters, maybe warm summers
Dominates by cone-baring trees

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Template broadleaf forest

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Hot and humid summers
Rain in all seasons 70-200> cm
Distinct vertical layers

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Tundra

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Cold
Average 20-60 cm
Herbaceous, mosses, grasses

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Lakes

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Standing bodies of water
Oligotrophic and eutrophic lakes

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Nutrient-poor but oxygen rich lakes

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Oligotrophic

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Nutrient-rich but low oxygen lakes

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Eutrophic

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Wetland

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Covered by water sometimes
Periodically low in dissolved oxygen

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Streams and rivers

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Headwaters - rich in oxygen, thin, rocky floor
Downstream- Low oxygen, wide, silty

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Estuaries

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Transition between rivers and seas
Salinity varies
Complex flow patterns

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Intertidal zones

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Tide pools basically
Periodically submerged or exposed
High oxygen and nutrients

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Oceanic Pelagic Zone

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Open ocean water
High oxygen, lower nutrient concentrations
70% of earth’s surface

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Coral reefs

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Hugh oxygen
Relatively stable tropical enviroment

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Marine Benthic Zone

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Seafloor.
Deeper = colder
Sufficient oxygen

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Water cycle - Biological importance, forms avaliable, reservoirs, key processes

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Essential for all organisms
Ocean (97%)
Maim process if evaporation and precipitation

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Carbon - Biological importance, forms avaliable, reservoirs, key processes

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Framework for all organic molecules.
Consumption
Ground, mainly sedimentary rock
Plants capture CO2, animals eat and release CO2

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Nitrogen - Biological importance, forms avaliable, reservoirs, key processes

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Part of Amino acids, protiens, nucleic acids
Nitogen fixation
Atmosphere
Nitrogen fixation

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Phosphorous - Biological importance, forms avaliable, reservoirs, key processes

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Nucleic acids, phosopgilids, ATP
Plants absorb
Sedimentary rock
Weathering rocks (never in air)

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Aquatic primary production is limited by

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Nutrients and light
(Nitogen and phosphorous most often)

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Terrestrial primary production is limited by

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Temperature and moisture

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