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(8)Chapter 54. Ecosystems ( 生態系統 ) Ecology ( 生態學 ). Key Concepts. Concept 54.1: Ecosystem ecology emphasizes energy flow and chemical cycling ( 生態系統強調能量流通與化學循環 ) Concept 54.2: Physical and chemical factors limit primary production in ecosystems ( 物理與化學因子限制生態系統的初級生產量 ) - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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PowerPoint Lectures for Biology, Seventh Edition
Neil Campbell and Jane Reece
Lectures by Chris Romero
(8) Chapter 54(8) Chapter 54
Ecosystems ( 生態系統 )
Ecology ( 生態學 )
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Key Concepts• Concept 54.1: Ecosystem ecology emphasizes energy
flow and chemical cycling ( 生態系統強調能量流通與化學循環 )
• Concept 54.2: Physical and chemical factors limit primary production in ecosystems ( 物理與化學因子限制生態系統的初級生產量 )
• Concept 54.3: Energy transfer between trophic levels is usually less than 20% efficient ( 不同食性階層的能量轉移效率低於 20%)
• Concept 54.4: Biological and geochemical processes move nutrients between organic and inorganic parts of the ecosystem ( 生物與地質化學過程生態系統有機與無機間的營養 )
• Concept 54.5: The human population is disrupting chemical cycles throughout the biosphere ( 人類族群破壞生物圈的化學循環 )
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• Overview: Ecosystems, Energy, and Matter
• An ecosystem consists of all the organisms living in a community as well as all the abiotic factors ( 非生物因子 ) with which they interact
• Ecosystems can range from a microcosm ( 微宇宙 ), such as an aquarium ( 水族館 ) to a large area such as a lake or forest
• An aquarium is an
ecosystem bounded
by glass
Figure 54.1
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• Regardless of an ecosystem’s size ( 不論生態系統的尺度大小 )
– Its dynamics involve two main processes: energy flow and chemical cycling ( 能量流通與化學循環 )
• Energy flows through ecosystems
– While matter cycles ( 物質循環 ) within them
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• Concept 54.1: Ecosystem ecology emphasizes energy flow and chemical cycling ( 生態系生態學強調能量流通與化學循環 )
• Ecosystem ecologists view ecosystems as
– Transformers of energy ( 能量的轉換機器 )
– processors of matter ( 物質的加工機器 )
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Ecosystems and Physical Laws ( 物理定律 )
• The laws of physics and chemistry apply to ecosystems ( 物理與化學定律適用於生態系統 )
– Particularly in regard to the flow of energy. Two laws of thermodynamics govern energy transformations in organism and all other collections of matter
– The first law of thermodynamics: energy can be transferred and transformed, but it cannot be created or destroyed (The principle of conservation of energy,能量守恆 )
– The second law of thermodynamics: every energy transfer or transformation increases the disorder (entropy) of the universe. Energy conversions cannot be completely efficient; some energy is always lost as heat in any conversion process
• Energy is conserved, but degraded to heat during ecosystem processes ( 能量不滅,但是在生態系統變遷過程能量轉化為熱量 )
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Trophic Relationships ( 不同營養階層的關係 )
• Nutrients cycle within an ecosystem
• Decomposition ( 分解作用 )
– Connects all trophic levels ( 聯繫所有營養階層 )
• Energy and nutrients pass from primary producers (autotrophs) 初級生產者 ( 自營生物 )
– To primary consumers (herbivores 食草動物 / 草食者 ) and then to secondary consumers (carnivores食肉動物 / 肉食者 )
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生態系統中的能量流通與化學循環• Energy flows through an ecosystem entering
as light and exiting as heat
Figure 54.2
Microorganismsand other
detritivores
Detritus碎屑
Primary producers
Primary consumers
Secondaryconsumers
Tertiary consumers
HeatSun light
Key
Chemical cyclingEnergy flow
三級消費者
次級消費者
初級消費者
初級生產者
微生物及其它碎食者
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• Detritivores ( 碎食生物 / 碎食者 ), mainly bacteria and fungi, recycle essential chemical elements
– By decomposing organic material and transferring the chemical elements in inorganic forms to abiotic reservoirs, i.e. returning elements to inorganic reservoirs
Figure 54.3
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• Concept 54.2: Physical and chemical factors limit primary production in ecosystems
• Primary production ( 初級生產力 ) in an ecosystem
– Is the amount of light energy converted to chemical energy by autotrophs during a given time period
• Ecosystem Energy Budgets ( 生態系的能量預算 )
– The extent of photosynthetic production sets the spending limit for the energy budget of the entire ecosystem
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The Global Energy Budget ( 全球的能量預算 )
• The amount of solar radiation reaching the surface of the Earth
– Limits the photosynthetic output of ecosystems
• Only a small fraction of solar energy
– Actually strikes photosynthetic organisms
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Gross and Net Primary Production (GPP &NPP)
• Total primary production in an ecosystem
– Is known as that ecosystem’s gross primary production (GPP)( 總體初級生產力是所有初級生產力的總和 )
• Not all of this production
– Is stored as organic material in the growing plants
• Net primary production (NPP)( 淨初級生產力 )
– Is equal to GPP minus the energy used by the primary producers for respiration (R) NPP=GPP-R
• Only NPP
– Is available to consumers
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• Different ecosystems vary considerably in their net primary production and in their contribution to the total NPP on Earth
Lake and stream
Open oceanContinental shelf
EstuaryAlgal beds and reefs
Upwelling zonesExtreme desert, rock, sand, iceDesert and semidesert scrub
Tropical rain forestSavanna
Cultivated landBoreal forest (taiga)
Temperate grassland
TundraTropical seasonal forest
Temperate deciduous forestTemperate evergreen forest
Swamp and marsh
Woodland and shrubland
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 0 500 1,000 1,500 2,000 2,500 0 5 10 15 20 25Percentage of Earth’s netprimary production
Key
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Freshwater (on continents)
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Percentage of Earth’ssurface area
(a) Average net primaryproduction (g/m2/yr)(b) (c)
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• Overall, terrestrial ecosystems ( 陸域生態系統 ) contribute about two-thirds (2/3) of global NPP and marine ecosystems about one-third (1/3)
Figure 54.5. Regional annual net primary production for earth. The image is based on data, such as chlorophyll density by satellite. (Low) lighter violet→blue→green→yellow→orange→dark red (High)
180 120W 60W 0 60E 120E 180
North Pole
60N
30N
Equator
30S
60S
South Pole
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Primary Production in Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems ( 海洋與淡水生態系的初級生產力 )• In marine and freshwater ecosystems
– Both light and nutrients are important in controlling primary production
• Light Limitation ( 光線限制 )
– The depth of light penetration affects primary production throughout the photic zone of an ocean or lake
• Nutrient Limitation ( 養份限制 )
– More than light, nutrients limit primary production, both in different geographic regions of the ocean and in lakes
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• A limiting nutrient ( 限制性養份 ) is the element that must be added
– In order for production to increase in a particular area
• Nitrogen (N) and phosphorous ( P)
– Are typically the nutrients that most often limit marine production
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• Nutrient enrichment experiments confirmed that nitrogen (N) was limiting phytoplankton growth in an area of the ocean
Experiment: Pollution from duck farms concentrated near Moriches Bay adds both nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) to the coastal water off Long Island. Researchers cultured the phytoplankton Nannochloris atomus with water collected from several bays.
Figure 54.6
Coast of Long Island, New York. The numbers on the map indicate the data collection stations.
Long Island
Great South Bay
Shinnecock Bay
Moriches Bay
Atlantic Ocean
30 21
1915
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Figure 54.6
Conclusion: Since adding phosphorus, which was already in rich supply, had no effect on Nannochloris growth, whereas adding nitrogen increased algal density dramatically, researchers concluded that nitrogen was the nutrient limiting phytoplankton growth in this ecosystem.
(a) Phytoplankton biomass and phosphorus concentration (b) Phytoplankton response to nutrient enrichment
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) caused heavy phytoplankton growth in bay water, but the addition of phosphate (PO4
3) did not induce algal growth (b).
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• Experiments in another ocean region showed that iron (Fe) limited primary production
Table 54.1
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• The addition of large amounts of nutrients to lakes
– Has a wide range of ecological impacts ( 生態衝擊 )
• In some areas, sewage runoff
– Has caused eutrophication of lakes ( 湖泊優養化 ), which can lead to the eventual loss of most fish species from the lakes
Figure 54.7
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Primary Production in Terrestrial and Wetland Ecosystems( 陸域及溼地生態系的初級生產力 )
• In terrestrial and wetland ecosystems climatic factors
– Such as temperature and moisture, affect primary production on a large geographic scale( 大的地理尺度 )
• The contrast between wet and dry climates
– Can be represented by a measure called actual evapotranspiration
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• Actual evapotranspiration ( 蒸發散作用 )
– Is the amount of water annually transpired by plants and evaporated from a landscape
– Is related to net primary production
Figure 54.8Actual evapotranspiration (mm H2O/yr)
Tropical forest (熱帶雨林 )
Temperate forest (溫帶雨林 )Mountain coniferous forest (高山針葉林 )
Temperate grassland (溫帶草原 )
Arctic tundra (極地苔原 )
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• On a more local scale ( 地區性尺度 )
– A soil nutrient is often the limiting factor in primary production ( 土壤營養通常是初級生產力的限制因子 )
Figure 54.9
EXPERIMENTOver the summer of 1980, researchers added phosphorus (P) to some experimental plots in the salt marsh, nitrogen (N) to other plots, and both phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) to others. Some plots were left unfertilized as controls.
RESULTS
Experimental plots receiving just phosphorus (P) do not outproduce the unfertilized control plots.
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These nutrient enrichment experiments confirmed that nitrogen was the nutrient limiting plant growth in this salt marsh.
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• Concept 54.3: Energy transfer between trophic levels is usually less than 20% efficient
• The secondary production of an ecosystem
– Is the amount of chemical energy in consumers’ food that is converted to their own new biomass during a given period of time
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Production Efficiency
• When a caterpillar feeds on a plant leaf
– Only about one-sixth (1/6) of the energy in the leaf is used for secondary production ( 次級生產 )
Figure 54.10
Plant materialeaten by caterpillar
Cellularrespiration
Growth (new biomass)
Feces 100 J33 J
200 J
67 J
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• The production efficiency of an organism
– Is the fraction of energy stored in food that is not used for respiration
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Trophic Efficiency and Ecological Pyramids
• Trophic efficiency ( 營養層級效應 )
– Is the percentage of production transferred from one trophic level to the next
– Usually ranges from 5% to 20%
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Pyramids of Net Production ( 淨生產力金字塔 )
• This loss of energy with each transfer in a food chain can be represented by a pyramid of net production
Figure 54.11
Tertiaryconsumers
Secondaryconsumers
Primaryconsumers
Primaryproducers
1,000,000 J of sunlight
10 J
100 J
1,000 J
10,000 J
三級消費者
次級消費者
初級消費者
初級生產者
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Pyramids of Biomass ( 生物量金字塔 )
• One important ecological consequence of low trophic efficiencies ( 低營養階層效率 )
– Can be represented in a biomass pyramid
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Biomass pyramids ( 生物能量塔 )
• Most biomass pyramids show a sharp decrease at successively higher trophic levels ( 高營養階層 )
Figure 54.12a
Trophic level Dry weight (g/m2)
Primary producers
Tertiary consumers
Secondary consumersPrimary consumers
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(a) Most biomass pyramids show a sharp decrease in biomass at successively higher trophic levels, as illustrated by data from a bog at Silver Springs, Florida.
三級消費者次級消費者初級消費者初級生產者
營養階層
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• Certain aquatic ecosystems ( 水域生態系 ) have inverted biomass pyramids
Figire 54.12b
Trophic level
Primary producers (phytoplankton 浮游植物 )
Primary consumers (zooplankton 浮游動物 )
Dry weight (g/m2)
21
4
(b) In some aquatic ecosystems, such as the English Channel, a small standing crop of primary producers (phytoplankton) supports a larger standing crop of primary consumers (zooplankton).
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Pyramids of Numbers ( 數量金字塔 )
• A pyramid of numbers represents the number of individual organisms in each trophic level ( 數量金字塔代表各營養層級的個體數目 )
Figure 54.13
Trophic level Number of individual organisms
Primary producers
Tertiary consumers
Secondary consumers
Primary consumers
3
354,904
708,624
5,842,424
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• The dynamics of energy flow through ecosystems have important implications for the human population
• Eating meat is a relatively inefficient way of tapping photosynthetic production
• Worldwide agriculture could successfully feed many more people if humans all fed more efficiently, eating only plant material
Figure 54.14
Trophic level
Secondaryconsumers
Primaryconsumers
Primaryproducers
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The Green World Hypothesis ( 綠色世界假說 )
• According to the green world hypothesis
– Terrestrial herbivores consume relatively little plant biomass because they are held in check by a variety of factors
• Most terrestrial ecosystems( 陸域生態系 )
– Have large standing crops despite the large numbers of herbivores( 草食動物 )
Figure 54.15
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綠色世界假說• The green world hypothesis proposes several
factors that keep herbivores in check
– Plants have defenses against herbivores
– Nutrients, not energy supply, usually limit herbivores
– Abiotic factors ( 非生物因子 ) limit herbivores
– Intraspecific competition ( 種內競爭 ) can limit herbivore numbers
– Interspecific interactions ( 種間互動 ) check herbivore densities
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• Concept 54.4: Biological and geochemical processes move nutrients between organic and inorganic parts of the ecosystem
• Life on Earth
– Depends on the recycling of essential chemical elements
• Nutrient circuits that cycle matter through an ecosystem
– Involve both biotic and abiotic components and are often called biogeochemical cycles ( 生物地質化學循環 )
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A General Model of Chemical Cycling( 化學循環 )
• Gaseous forms of carbon (C), oxygen (O), sulfur (S), and nitrogen (N)
– Occur in the atmosphere and cycle globally ( 全球性循環 )
• Less mobile elements, including phosphorous (P), potassium (K), and calcium (Ca)
– Cycle on a more local level ( 地區性或區域性循環 )
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Nutrient cycling ( 營養循環 )
• A general model of nutrient cycling ( 營養循環 )
– Includes the main reservoirs of elements and the processes that transfer elements between reservoirs
– All elements cycle between organic and inorganic reservoirs
Figure 54.16
Organicmaterialsavailable
as nutrientsLivingorganisms,detritus
Organicmaterials
unavailableas nutrients
Coal, oil,peat
Inorganicmaterialsavailable
as nutrients
Inorganicmaterials
unavailableas nutrients
Atmosphere,soil, water
Mineralsin rocksFormation of
sedimentary rock
Weathering,erosion
Respiration,decomposition,excretion
Burningof fossil fuels
Fossilization
Reservoir a Reservoir b
Reservoir c Reservoir d
Assimilation, photosynthesis
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Biogeochemical Cycles ( 生物地質化學循環 )
• The water cycle and the carbon cycle ( 水循環及碳循環 )
Transportover land
Solar energy
Net movement ofwater vapor by wind
Precipitationover ocean
Evaporationfrom ocean
Evapotranspirationfrom land
Precipitationover land
PercolationthroughsoilRunoff and
groundwater
CO2 in atmosphere
Photosynthesis
Cellularrespiration
Burning offossil fuelsand wood Higher-level
consumersPrimaryconsumers
DetritusCarbon compounds in water
Decomposition
THE WATER CYCLE THE CARBON CYCLE
Figure 54.17
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• Water moves in a global cycle ( 全球循環 )
– Driven by solar energy ( 太陽能 )
• The carbon cycle ( 碳循環 )
– Reflects the reciprocal processes of photosynthesis and cellular respiration
( 反應光合作用與呼吸作用的相反過程 )
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Nitrogen cycle (N) and the phosphorous cycle (P)
• The nitrogen cycle and the phosphorous cycle ( 氮循環及磷循環 )
N2 in atmosphere
Denitrifyingbacteria
Nitrifyingbacteria
Nitrifyingbacteria
Nitrification
Nitrogen-fixingsoil bacteria
Nitrogen-fixingbacteria in rootnodules of legumes
Decomposers
Ammonification
Assimilation
NH3 NH4+
NO3
NO2
Rain
Plants
Consumption
Decomposition
Geologicuplift
Weatheringof rocks
Runoff
Sedimentation Plant uptakeof PO4
3Soil
Leaching滲漏作用
THE NITROGEN CYCLE THE PHOSPHORUS CYCLE
Figure 54.17
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• Most of the nitrogen cycling in natural ecosystems
– Involves local cycles between organisms and soil or water
• The phosphorus cycle
– Is relatively localized
• The rates at which nutrients cycle in different ecosystems
– Are extremely variable, mostly as a result of differences in rates of decomposition
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Decomposition and Nutrient Cycling Rates
• Decomposers (detritivores, 分解者 ) play a key role
– In the general pattern of chemical cycling
Figure 54.18
Consumers
Producers
Nutrientsavailable
to producers
Abioticreservoir
Geologicprocesses
DecomposersBiotic (生物性 )
Abiotic (非生物性 )
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Vegetation and Nutrient Cycling: The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
• Nutrient cycling is strongly regulated by vegetation( 植被強烈地調節營養循環 )
• Long-term ecological research (LTER) projects ( 長期生態研究 )
– Monitor ecosystem dynamics over relatively long periods of time
• The Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest
– Has been used to study nutrient cycling in a forest ecosystem since 1963
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• The research team constructed a dam on the site
– To monitor water and mineral loss
Figure 54.19a
(a) Concrete dams and weirs built across streams at the bottom of watersheds enabled researchers to monitor the outflow of water and nutrients from the ecosystem.
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• In one experiment, the trees in one valley were cut down and the valley was sprayed with herbicides ( 除草劑 )
Figure 54.19b(b) One watershed was clear cut to study the effects of the loss
of vegetation on drainage and nutrient cycling.
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• Net losses of water and minerals were studied and found to be greater than in an undisturbed area
• These results showed how human activity can affect ecosystems
Figure 54.19c(c) The concentration of nitrate in runoff from the
deforested watershed was 60 times greater than in a control (unlogged) watershed.
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• Concept 54.5: The human population is disrupting chemical cycles throughout the biosphere
• As the human population has grown in size
– Our activities have disrupted the trophic structure, energy flow, and chemical cycling of ecosystems in most parts of the world
• Nutrient Enrichment
– In addition to transporting nutrients from one location to another, humans have added entirely new materials, some of them toxins, to ecosystems
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Agriculture and Nitrogen Cycling ( 農業與氮循環 )
• Agriculture constantly removes nutrients from ecosystems that would ordinarily be cycled back into the soil.
• Nitrogen (N) is the main nutrient lost through agriculture. Thus, agriculture has a great impact on the nitrogen cycle.
• Industrially produced fertilizer is typically used to replace lost nitrogen (N), but the effects on an ecosystem can be harmful.
Figure 54.20
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Contamination of Aquatic Ecosystems ( 水域生態系的污染 )
• The critical load for a nutrient
– Is the amount of that nutrient that can be absorbed by plants in an ecosystem without damaging it
• When excess nutrients are added to an ecosystem, the critical load is exceeded
– And the remaining nutrients can contaminate groundwater and freshwater and marine ecosystems
• Sewage runoff contaminates freshwater ecosystems
– Causing cultural eutrophication ( 栽培的優養化 ), excessive algal growth ( 藻類過度生長 ), which can cause significant harm to these ecosystems
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Figure 54.21
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North America
Acid Precipitation 酸雨 (1)
• Combustion of fossil fuels
– Is the main cause of acid precipitation
• North American and European ecosystems downwind from industrial regions
– Have been damaged by rain and snow containing nitric and sulfuric acid ( 硝酸及硫酸 )
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Acid Precipitation 酸雨 (2)
• By the year 2000
– The entire contiguous United States was affected by acid precipitation
Figure 54.22
Field pH5.35.2–5.35.1–5.25.0–5.14.9–5.04.8–4.94.7–4.84.6–4.74.5–4.64.4–4.54.3–4.44.3
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Acid Precipitation 酸雨 (3)
• Environmental regulations and new industrial technologies
– Have allowed many developed countries to reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions in the past 30 years
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Toxins in the Environment
• Humans release an immense variety of toxic chemicals
– Including thousands of synthetics previously unknown to nature
• One of the reasons such toxins are so harmful
– Is that they become more concentrated in successive trophic levels of a food web
• In some cases, harmful substances ( 有害物質 )
– Persist for long periods of time in an ecosystem and continue to cause harm
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Biological magnification ( 生物放大效應 )
• In biological magnification
– Toxins concentrate at higher trophic levels because at these levels biomass tends to be lower
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s Herringgull eggs124 ppm
Zooplankton 0.123 ppm
Phytoplankton 0.025 ppm
Lake trout 4.83 ppm
Smelt 1.04 ppm
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Rising Atmospheric CO2
• One pressing problem caused by human activities is the rising level of atmospheric carbon dioxide
• Due to the increased burning of fossil fuels and other human activities, the concentration of atmospheric CO2 has been
steadily increasing
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How Elevated CO2 Affects Forest Ecology: The FACTS-I Experiment
• The FACTS-I experiment is testing how elevated CO2
– Influences tree growth, carbon concentration in soils, and other factors over a ten-year period
Figure 54.25
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The Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
• CO2 magnifies the greenhouse effect
– Increased levels of atmospheric CO2 are magnifying the greenhouse effect, which could cause global warming and significant climatic change
• The greenhouse effect is caused by atmospheric CO2
– But is necessary to keep the surface of the Earth at a habitable temperature
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Depletion of Atmospheric Ozone (O3)
• Life on Earth is protected from the damaging effects of UV radiation, by a protective layer or ozone molecules present in the atmosphere
Figure 54.26
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•Satellite studies of the atmosphere suggest that the ozone layer has been gradually thinning since 1975
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• The destruction of atmospheric ozone ( 大氣臭氧的破壞 )
– Probably results from chlorine-releasing pollutants produced by human activity
Figure 54.27
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2
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Chlorine from CFCs interacts with ozone (O3),forming chlorine monoxide (ClO) and oxygen (O2).
Two ClO molecules react, forming chlorine peroxide (Cl2O2).
Sunlight causes Cl2O2 to break down into O2 and free chlorine atoms. The chlorine atoms can begin the cycle again. Sunlight
Chlorine O3
O2
ClO
ClO
Cl2O2
O2
Chlorine atoms
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Ozone hole ( 臭氧洞 )
• Scientists first described an “ozone hole”
– Over Antarctica in 1985; it has increased in size as ozone depletion has increased
Figure 54.28a, b
(a) October 1979 (b) October 2000
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