Middle school slide show for ecology unit. Sun as source of energy. Producers, consumers, decomposers, trophic levels. Loss of available energy from trophic level to trophic level.
Middle school slide show for ecology unit. Sun as source of energy. Producers, consumers, decomposers, trophic levels. Loss of available energy from trophic level to trophic level.
In ecology, energy flow, also called the calorific flow, refers to the flow of energy through a food chain. In an ecosystem, ecologists seek to quantify the relative importance of different component species and feeding relationships.
A general energy flow scenario follows:
Solar energy is fixed by the photoautotrophs, called primary producers, like green plants. Primary consumers absorb most of the stored energy in the plant through digestion, and transform it into the form of energy they need, such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), through respiration. A part of the energy received by primary consumers, herbivores, is converted to body heat (an effect of respiration), which is radiated away and lost from the system. The loss of energy through body heat is far greater in warm-blooded animals, which must eat much more frequently than those that are cold-blooded. Energy loss also occurs in the expulsion of undigested food (egesta) by excretion or regurgitation.
Secondary consumers, carnivores, then consume the primary consumers, although omnivores also consume primary producers. Energy that had been used by the primary consumers for growth and storage is thus absorbed into the secondary consumers through the process of digestion. As with primary consumers, secondary consumers convert this energy into a more suitable form (ATP) during respiration. Again, some energy is lost from the system, since energy which the primary consumers had used for respiration and regulation of body temperature cannot be utilised by the secondary consumers.
Tertiary consumers, which may or may not be apex predators, then consume the secondary consumers, with some energy passed on and some lost, as with the lower levels of the food chain.
A final link in the food chain are decomposers which break down the organic matter of the tertiary consumers (or whichever consumer is at the top of the chain) and release nutrients into the soil. They also break down plants, herbivores and carnivores that were not eaten by organisms higher on the food chain, as well as the undigested food that is excreted by herbivores and carnivores. Saprotrophic bacteria and fungi are decomposers, and play a pivotal role in the nitrogen and carbon cycles.
The energy is passed on from trophic level to trophic level and each time about 90% of the energy is lost, with some being lost as heat into the environment (an effect of respiration) and some being lost as incompletely digested food (egesta). Therefore, primary consumers get about 10% of the energy produced by autotrophs, while secondary consumers get 1% and tertiary consumers get 0.1%. This means the top consumer of a food chain receives the least energy, as a lot of the food chain's energy has been lost between trophic levels. This loss of energy at each level limits typical food chains to only four to six links.
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4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
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In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
2. Energy Flow
• Energy in an ecosystem originally
comes from the sun
• Energy flows through Ecosystems
from producers to consumers
– Producers (make food)
– Consumers (use food by eating
producers or other consumers)
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3. Producers
• Sunlight is the main
source of energy
for most life on
earth.
• Producers contain
chlorophyll & can
use energy directly
from the sun
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4. Autotrophs
• An Autotroph is any organism
that can produce its own food
supply!
• Autotrophs are also called
Producers
• Plants, algae, some protists, &
some bacteria are examples
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5. Niche of a Producer
• Captures energy and transforms
it into organic, stored energy for
the use of living organisms.
• May be photoautotrophs using
light energy (e.g. plants)
• May be chemoautotrophs using
chemical energy (e.g.
cyanobacteria)
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6. Photoautotroph
Producer That Captures Energy
from the sun by:
– Photosynthesis
• Adds Oxygen to the
atmosphere
• Removes Carbon Dioxide from
the Atmosphere
Algae
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7. Habitat of Photoautotrophs
• On Land
– Plants
• In The Sea
– Algae
• Tidal Flats & Salt Marshes
– Cyanobacteria
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8. Chemoautotrophs
• Capture energy from
the bonds of inorganic
molecules such as
Hydrogen Sulfide
• Process is called
Chemosynthesis
• Often occurs in deep
Called a Black
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10. Consumers
Heterotrophs eat other
organisms to obtain
energy. (e.g. animals)
• Herbivores
– Eat Only Plants
• Carnivores
– Eat Only Other Animals
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11. Consumers
Heterotrophs eat other organisms
to obtain energy.
• Omnivores (Humans)
– Eat Plants & Animals
• Detritivores (Scavengers)
– Feed On Dead Plant & Animal
Remains (buzzards)
• Decomposers
– Fungi & Bacteriacmassengale
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12. Feeding Relationships
Energy flows
through an
ecosystem in
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13. Feeding Relationships
• Food Chain
– Simple Energy path through an
ecosystem
• Food Web
– More realistic path through an
ecosystem made of many food
chains
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14. Food Chain
3rd
1 order
st 2nd Order Order
Consumer consumer 4th Order
Consumer
Consumer
Producer (trapped
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15. Name the Producer, Consumers
& Decomposers in this food
chain:
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18. Trophic Levels
Each Level In A Food Chain or Food
Web is a Trophic Level.
• Producers
– Always The First Trophic Level
– How Energy Enters The System
• Herbivores
– Second Trophic Level
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19. Trophic Levels
• Carnivores/Omnivores
– Make Up The Remaining
Trophic Levels
Each level depends on the
one below it for energy.
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20. Ecological Pyramids
Graphic Representations Of The
Relative Amounts of Energy or
Matter At Each Trophic Level
May be:
Energy Pyramid
Biomass Pyramid
Pyramid of Numbers
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