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| Plant Adaptions: Cold Temp |
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| Dark Pigments, hairless, reduced surface area per mass unit, leaf orientation facing the sun |
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| Plant Adaptations: Warm Temp |
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| Large Surface area per mass unit, wind flows through the plant, orient leaves parallel to the sun so it does not get direct sun exposure. |
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| The concentration of different water isotopes changes with temp.(known as fractionization) Warm water has higher concentration of H2O - 18 |
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| body temp changes with environment |
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| Typically higher than ambient temperature. Body temp. does not change with environment very much |
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| Behavioral Regulation of Temp. |
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| Moving to warmer/colder areas to regulate body temperature. |
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| Temperature range where organisms do not need to use metabolism energy to maintain homeostasis. Cold climate animals have larger zone. |
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| Drink a lot, Secrete Cl-, H2O diffuses out, concentrated urine. |
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| Freshwater Animal Adaptions |
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| Cl- absorbed, don't drink a lot, dilute urine, H2O diffuses in. |
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| eat dead stuff, decomposers |
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| Most common, uses the most water (380g - 900g per gram of tissue produced). Occurs in mezophyll cells, CO2 and Rubisco is used to form acid where Carbon is located. |
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| 250g - 350g of water used per gram of tissue created, mezophyll cells, PEP is the fixation enzyme and it is more efficient, Independent of life? |
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| 50g of water used/gram of tissue created, temporal separation of CO2 fixation, very good at fixing CO2 at night. |
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| Photosynthesis Flux, CO2 Flux, Nitrogen Flux. |
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| More light added, less and less return in how much photosynthesis increase there is. This is also true for CO2 and Nitrogen. |
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Nitrogen: Chlorophyl + Rubisco
Phosphorous: RNA and DNA
Micro nutrients: K, Ca, Mg, S |
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| Nitrophying bacteria take ammonium (NH4) and oxidize it to release Nitrogen which is important for life. |
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| High C:N ratios, animals seek out young leaves to get lowest C:N ratios, Carbons are in long chains (lignin, cellulose, tannin) so they are hard to digest, alkaloids = poisonous, grasses have silica (hard to chew). |
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| way to measure consumption ratio in response to density of prey |
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| food intake increases = less intake of nutrients |
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| food intake increases = higher intake of nutrients |
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| Organisms become pickier... |
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| with higher abundance of prey |
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