PPT-Understanding Ecosystems and Their Services

GEOSS Symposium The Scientific Benefits of Data Sharing 16 November 2009 Anthony C Janetos Director Joint Global Change Research Institute Chair GOFCGOLD Outline The context of ecosystem services. 4.2 pgs. 94 - 100. Biomes. A large geographical region with a specific range of temperatures and precipitation, and the organisms that are adapted to those conditions of temperature and precipitation. Explain how biomes are characterized. Describe how net primary production varies among biomes. Explain how organisms are adapted to the conditions of their biomes. Describe the criteria ecologist use to classify aquatic systems. - Jacques Ives Cousteau. 2. New Orleans is nested between the mouth of the Mississippi River and the brackish estuary of Lake Pontchartrain.. 3. A series of floodwalls, or levees, protects the city from ocean surges from large storms.. CHAPTER. Too Much of a Good Thing?. Elephant populations in southern Africa declined sharply due to hunting but have made overwhelming comebacks within nature reserves and parks.. Some worry that elephant overpopulation is causing a decline in local biodiversity and damage to farms and infrastructure.. Chapter 3 (Miller and . Spoolman. , 2010). Core Case Study: Tropical Rain Forests Are Disappearing. Cover about 2% of the earth’s land surface. Contain about 50% of the world’s known plant and animal species. Aquatic ecosystems are primarily determined by the ecosystem’s . salinity. . Salinity refers to the dissolved salt content of the water.. Aquatic ecosystems are divided into freshwater and marine ecosystems.. What are Ecosystems? . Groups of living things and the non-living environment in which they live.. The people that study ecosystems are called: . “ecologists.”. Let’s look at the living parts of the ecosystem:. The . altiplano. is a high plateau in the Andean regions of two South American nations.. The . varzea. , or “flooded forest,” is found mainly along the Amazon River in this nation.. The . cerrado. The Fiji Pearl Development Pla. n. was introduced June 7. th. 2017 at World Oceans day by the Fiji Government as one of 16 Voluntary commitments towards the implementation of Sustainable Goal 14.. PEWI. ):. A dynamic land-use and ecosystem service tradeoffs assessment . tool. Why PEWI?. How agriculture can produce outcomes that society desires. How we can learn. Complex social-ecological relationships. LO: . I can define and differentiate biotic and abiotic factors in an ecosystem . (5.L.4A.1). . EQ: . How do biotic and abiotic factors interact with each other in an ecosystem?. Ecosystem. Ecosystem. What is ecology?. It is the science that studies how . organisms. relate to each other and their . environment. .. Considers both . biotic. (living) and . abiotic. (nonliving) aspects.. Examples of abiotic factors: . Summary. This lesson utilizes the example of healthy estuaries to demonstrate tools scientists use to measure ecosystem health. Students will learn the definition and function of an estuary, an essential coastal ocean ecosystem. Students will then learn methods to measure parameters of large areas using quadrats and subsets. . Unit Standards. 5.L.4A.1 . Analyze and interpret data to summarize the abiotic factors (including quantity of light and water, range of temperature, salinity, and soil composition) of different terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic ecosystems. .