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12F Ecosystem Stability
Describe how environmental change can impact ecosystem
stability.
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Ecosystem Stability
Capability of an ecosystem to remain constant despite
changing environment, number of species, population sizes,
and interactions.
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Biodiversity
• Variety of life within an ecosystem
• Lots of different types of plants and animals means a “healthy” ecosystem
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What can alter the stability?
• if individuals within the population cannot survive and reproduce, the population size will decrease
• individuals also might move out of the area if they cannot find resources
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• if a disaster occurs (fire, storms, etc..) the biodiversity might change and populations might not be able to cope with the change
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What causes loss of biodiversity?
• Global warming
• Pollution
• acid rain
• deforestation
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3. FIRE
• Trees and other plants die
• Animals die or move away
• The topsoil is ruined, but under ground remains intact and ecological succession starts to occur
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Before & after a fire
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4. STORMS
(tornados, hurricanes, floods)
• Uproot trees
• kill animals
• Water is polluted
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5. NATURAL CLIMATE CHANGE
• Normal climate change (seasons) occur every year
• Sometimes droughts occur – killing plants and animals
• Sometimes a mild winter doesn’t kill off insects and the summer’s crops are eaten by large population of insects
• Asteroids affect the entire ecosystem
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6. Habitat Loss
• People chopping down forests to make farmland, build roads, shopping malls, etc…
• deforestation
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Rainforest Deforestation
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a. HABITAT FRAGMENTATION
• When species are living in a small area of suitable habitat surrounded by areas of unsuitable habitat
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Great Ape
Habitat Africa
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7. Pollution
• Impacts both land and water
• Examples:
- Mercury & DDT biomagnification in ospreys and pelicans
- Oil spills
- Might take 50+ years for ecosystem to recover
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Pollution
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DDT and affects on Brown Pelican egg
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Mercury Effects
• Mercury has been measured in aquatic and terrestrial invertebrates, in a variety of plants, and in many higher organisms including humans. High concentrations of mercury have been associated with developmental and behavioral abnormalities, impaired reproduction and survival, and in some cases with direct mortality.
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Acid Precipitation
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8. Invasive Species• An organism not normally found in a a
particular ecosystem• Brought in by accident – on boats
fishing from lake to lake or people release aquarium fish in nearby waters
• Or brought in by man – kudzu plant was brought in for livestock feed and erosion control
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9. Global Climate Change
• Levels of CO2 rising in the earth’s atmosphere for the past 100 years
• Trapped CO2 causes earth’s temperature to rise.
• More or less rain in some areas (drought, flooding)
• Milder winters, hotter summers
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Warming Trend
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