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IPS Resilient Planet Mission 3- Paradise Lost. A Fragile Environmental Recovery. Welcome to the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay is the largest and most productive estuarine ecosystem in the United States. Welcome to the Chesapeake Bay. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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IPS Resilient Planet Mission 3- Paradise Lost
A Fragile Environmental Recovery
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Welcome to the Chesapeake Bay
• The Chesapeake Bay is the largest and most productive estuarine ecosystem in the United States
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Welcome to the Chesapeake Bay
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• An estuary is a large body of water that opens to an ocean, where salt water and fresh water mix.
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All the land that drains water into the Bay is the estuary's watershed.
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• The wetlands that border the Bay are transitional ecosystems.
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Wetlands
• They have characteristics of both land and aquatic habitats and include tidal saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes, brackish marshes, and mudflats
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Wetlands• Like other wetlands, estuaries are highly
productive environments that support diverse communities on land and in water.
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• The sediment falls to the bottom of the Bay, making it an important natural sink for many elements and compounds.
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• The Bay's nutrient-rich waters support a significant community of primary producers. Coastal forests, marshlands, shore grasses, and submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) provide food and shelter for animals.
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• The Bay is home to nearly 300 species of fish. Globally, the productivity of estuaries has declined in recent years as human populations have increased along their shores.
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• Estuaries across the globe have similar characteristics. They lie between land and ocean, contain a mixture of salt water and fresh water, and accumulate large amounts of sediment and organic material.
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• http://pmm.nasa.gov/education/videos/nasa-real-world-nasa-and-chesapeake-bay
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Esturaries
• SAV—Submerged Aquatic Vegetation These plants are sources of food and habitat for many shellfish, finfish, birds, amphibians, reptiles, invertebrates, and mammals
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Esturaries
WetlandsThe high primary productivity in the wetlands fuels food webs
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Estuarys
Filter Feeders These organisms filter suspended particles to obtain food by straining the water. Anything not eaten is bound with mucus and discarded• http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTuBbuUro4g
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Estuarys
• Pit Stops for Migratory Birds The North American migratory flyways describe the routes followed by migratory birds
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• Natural, Economic, and Aesthetic Values – Recreation and coastal industries
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• One reason the Bay is so productive is because it is shallow.
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• Aquatic plants receive plenty of sunlight—even those that live on the bottom. Aquatic plants are grouped into three categories based on the way they grow - floating, emergent (rooted at the water's edge, but their stems and leaves grow above the surface of the water. Cattails, cordgrass, and rushes are examples) , and Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) which is critical in the recycling of nitrogen and phosphorous that would otherwise dissolve in the water which controls the population of algae.
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• Fresh water from land mixes with salt water from the Atlantic Ocean to create brackish water.
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• Salinity is the amount of dissolved salts in the water and is an important abiotic factor in determining what plants and animals can exist in any part of the estuary. practical salinity units
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• The salinity increases as you go deeper into the water. A zone where salinity changes rapidly with depth is called a halocline.
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• Temperature is another important abiotic factor in the Chesapeake Bay. a zone can form where temperature rapidly changes with depth, called a thermocline.
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• Changes in sea level When the tide is high, large expanses of sand and mud may be covered by water. When the tide goes out, that land becomes exposed to air. This pattern of immersion and exposure creates a very stressful environment. Known as the intertidal zone,
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• Dead Zones• Runoff from land carries
sediment and nutrients into the Bay.
• Sometimes the runoff contains high levels of fertilizers washed from farms, suburban lawns, golf courses, and sewage plants.
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• Dead Zones• Fertilizers contain large amounts of nitrogen
and phosphorous, that can cause a sudden population explosion called an algal bloom. can survive.
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• Dead Zones• Any increase in
these nutrients is called eutrophication.
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• Dead Zones• The algae begin to die and sink to the bottom.
decomposers use up all the oxygen. Oxygen is an important limiting factor. Without it, the ecosystem collapses and the area becomes a dead zone where very few organisms can survive.
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• Development Pressures As the human population increased, critical habitats in the watershed were destroyed and the competition for the resources in the Bay became overwhelming.
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• The Chesapeake Bay ecosystem degraded.• Scientists use the term population density to
describe the concentration of a species.
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• Improperly treated sewage, excessive runoff, increased animal manure, soil erosion, and heavy use of fertilizers.
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• a single known source, it is considered a point source.
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• When the pollution does not come from a single known source, it is a non-point source.
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• Riparian forest occur when trees line a riverbank, their roots bind the soil and reduce erosion. Riparian trees and wetland plants filter about 80% of the phosphorous and about 90% of the nitrogen from the water. By slowing water flow, the plants also trap sediment.
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• Filter feeders, such as oysters and clams, filter food particles from the water. The oyster filters and absorbs the nutrients but treats the abiotic sediment as waste which are heavy enough to sink to the bottom of the bay making the water less turbid.
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• Today, however, the population of oysters is less than 1% of its former size. The loss of oysters due to overfishing, diseases, loss of habitat, and low oxygen has significantly affected water quality.
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One way to help wild oysters and other aquatic populations to recover is to "farm" seafood. Farming aquatic organisms underwater is called aquaculture
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