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-You can never do just one thing
-Everything goes somewhere
-No population can increase in size forever
-No free lunch (tradeoffs)
-Evolution matters
-Life would be impossible without species interactions |
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| Interactions among organisms and between organisms and the environment include... |
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-flows (energy, nutrients)
-other types of interactions (predation, competition) |
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| filter that affects how animal and plant communities are organized (community assembly) |
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| reversible physiological changes -> acclimation |
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| natural selection will favor individuals with genetic traits that give them a fitness advantage under the new conditions -> adaptation |
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| Nothing limits terrestrial plant production to the extent that _____ does |
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-Photosynthesis
-Transport
-Support |
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| allow both CO2 intake and transpiration to occur in plants |
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| What are some challenges faced by terrestrial organisms? |
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-Temperature regulation
-Water balance
-Electrolyte balance and osmoregulation |
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| Na limitation or deficiency is a common problem for herbivores. Why? |
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| Our membrane transport systems evolved in a marine environment (Na+ is the dominant cation in seawater), and have been largely conserved (our early tetrapod ancestors brought extracellular “marine” environment on to land with them) |
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-Nerve and muscle cell excitation
-Cell volume regulation
-Regulation of urine concentration: H2O conservation
-Cotransport (e.g. glucose uptake) and countertransport (Ca++ exchange) |
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| What can animals do to minimize Na loss? |
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-Geophagy (eating dirt)
-Using Na-enriched water
-Selecting Na-rich plants |
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-Most abundant protein on Earth
-Rate-limiting rxn for CO2 assimilation
-O2 is a competitive inhibitor to CO2 at the active site
-Catalyzes both the carboxylation of RuBP and its oxygenation -> photorespiration |
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| Ratio of reaction rates (carboxylation vs. oxygenation) depends on... |
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| [CO2] vs [O2] and temperature |
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| What limits photosynthesis? |
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-Supply of CO2
-Light (400 – 700 nm)
-Water
-N supply
-Temperature |
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| C4 photosynthesis (Grasses) |
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-Separation of CO2 uptake and Calvin cycle
-PEPcase has higher CO2 affinity than Rubisco -> photorespiration is reduced |
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| C4 is more efficient than C3 at high temperatures -> “warm-season grasses” – Why? |
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| Affininty for Co2 increases w/ temp increase |
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| C4 plants have higher water use efficiency (WUE) than C3 plants – Why? |
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| C4 plants can bring in Co2 even when stomata are closed |
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| Does C4 do better in high or low light? |
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| Do C4 plants use more or less energy than C3 plants? |
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| What responses should we expect from C3 and C4 plants under global climate change? |
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| Increase in abundance of C3 woody plants |
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| What are some allocation tradeoffs we might expect from plants in carbon allocation? |
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-growth vs antiherbivore defense
-Plants adapted to resource poor env. are slow growing
-Plants in resc. poor env. tend to have long lived tissues (ex. leaves)
-It is worth defending against herbivores in these env. |
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| Photosynthesis is a _____ level process |
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| an aggregate, ecosystem-level metric of C fixation through photosynthesis... |
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| total photosynthesis per unit area |
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| Gross Primary Production (GPP) |
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| Adding extra leaf layers yields diminishing... |
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| what is left of C fixation after respiratory losses ? |
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-Over grazing
-Precip
-Temp |
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| Can herbivory actually enhance NPP? |
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| What are some life history variables? |
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-mode of reproduction (sexual vs asexual)
-age at first reproduction
-parity - number of reproductive events
-number of offspring per reproductive event
-level of parental investment per offspring
-lifespan |
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