Lecture 12 - November 10, 2009

Outline

• reinforcing feedback (review)
• biomes
• ecoregions

Vocabulary (see this page)

Using viewers and Multiple Perspectives

• network and systems feedbacks that stabilize certain states
• scale of study (population, community, ecosystem, biomes or ecoregions)

Life lessons that our grandmas taught us:

You need to know where you live.

Mini-quiz - you need to know:

• 13 terrestial biomes (name, major plant type)
• location on map

Interactions between climate, plants and soil

lead to broad regions (biomes)

might need smaller, more refined definition for study (ecoregions)

scale

• distance and time
• ecological studies are focused at particular scales
  • individual
  • population
  • community
  • ecosystem
• techniques and approaches
• cross-scale studies are an intellectual challenge
  

 

climate patterns

global

Oregon

east flowing winds and moisture

ocean currents - el Nino/la Nina

mountains

temperature/rain diagrams

Oregon

plant communities

water availability

temperature

 

soil types

as accumulation of climate impacts and plant activity

 

list of major biomes and gross characteristics

location on Earth

climate (altitude or latitude)

characteristic plant types

primary productivity

biodiversity

 

Ecoregions

Oregon

the World

 

WWF

interactive map