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Lecture 4 - Secondary Production Flashcards

1
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Give the 8 groups of marine invertebrates.

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  • Porifera
  • Cnidaria
  • Ctenophora
  • Polychaeta
  • Mollusca
  • Echinodermata
  • Crustaceans
  • Hemichordata
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2
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What is secondary production?

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The production of biomass by all heterotrophs.

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3
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Give the two components of secondary production.

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  • Somatic; gaining weight, the production of tissues.

- Gonad; the production of reproductive tissue such as sperm or eggs.

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4
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Give the four food web functional groups in order.

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1) Primary producers
2) Grazers
3) Suspension feeders
4) Predators

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5
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Where are grazers most likely seen?

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In benthic environments

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6
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What are suspension feeders?

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Organisms that collect particulate matter.

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7
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What are suspension feeders on the same trophic level as?

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Grazers

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8
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Who showed that marine food webs are very complex networks, with many more connections than freshwater or terrestrial systems?

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Link et al (2002)

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9
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Who came up with a definition for functional trophic levels?

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Pauly and Palomares (2005)

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10
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Give three ecosystems where sea urchins can be found.

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  • Rocky shores
  • Kelp forests
  • Tropical reefs
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11
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How do sea urchins feed?

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Using Aristotle’s lantern, 5 bony teeth, to scrape algae from rocks.

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12
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Give an example of how sea urchins can change an ecosystem.

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Monterey Bay, California - sea otters hunted and could not eat sea urchins, so sea urchins decimated the kelp forest.

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13
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What can be the result of no sea urchins?

Give an example.

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Algae overgrows other species due to lack of grazing.

Example: Caribbean 1983, urchins wiped out by disease. Algae overgrew coral reefs, leading to algal-dominated reefs.

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14
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What is Patella vulgata?

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The common limpet

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15
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Describe how Patella vulgata feeds.

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By scraping algae off of rocks using a radula.

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16
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What is the strongest biological material ever tested?

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Limpet teeth

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17
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What are limpet teeth composed of?

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Geophyte

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18
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What is special about the radula for each group?

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Each group of gastropods (slugs and snails) has its own specialised form of radula depending on its specific feeding mechanisms.

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19
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Name and describe the radula structure found in limpets.

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Docoglossan.

Teeth stick up.

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20
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Name and describe the radula structure found in whelks.

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Stenoglossan.

An adapted form of radula alike a harpoon that injects poison.

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21
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What is the meaning of the word zooplankton?

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Animal drifter

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22
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Give the size of micro-zooplankton.

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20-200 micrometers

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23
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Why are micro-zooplanktons such an understudied group?

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Sampling nets destroy them.

24
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Give some examples of micro-zooplankton.

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1) Phagotrophic protists, e.g. flagellates, dinoflagellates, ciliates, radiolarians, foraminiferans.
2) Metazoans, e.g. copepod nauplii, rotifers and meroplanktonic larvae.

25
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What are copepods?

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Pelagic grazers from the sub-phylum Crustacean.

26
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What two organisms are likely to be the biggest group of organisms on the planet.

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Either

  • Copepods
  • Krill
27
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How big are the largest copepods? Where are they found?

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7mm.

Found in the Arctic.

28
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How large is the average copepod?

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1-2mm

29
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What is likely to be the biggest contributor to secondary production in the world?

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Copepods

30
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What is the biggest Genus of copepod?

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Calinus

31
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What is diel vertical migration?

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Zooplankton species migrate away from food-rich surface waters during the day to avoid visual predators, then swim to the surface at night.

32
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Why is diel vertical migration of zooplankton so important?

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They do most of their defecating in deeper waters, shunting carbon 100s of metres below the surface, then surface waters can take up more carbon.

33
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Describe pteropods.

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Pelagic grazers that feed by forming mucus webs, entangling planktonic food.

34
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Why are pteropods under threat currently?

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Due to ocean acidification.

Vulnerable to changes in aragonite saturation state.

35
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Classify krill.

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Small crustaceans, from the order Euphausiacea

36
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What is the estimated biomass of drill in the Southern Ocean?

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500 million tonnes

37
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What do krill eat?

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  • Phytoplankton

- Copepods

38
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How do krill feed?

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Using comb-like appendages on their legs

39
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Classify bivalves.

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Phylum Mollusca, Class Bivalvia

40
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What organisms are bivalves?

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Mussels, oysters, cockles

41
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What are the only molluscs without a radula?

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Bivalves

42
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How do bivalves feed?

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Suspension feeding - suck water in and pass it over their gills, extracting particles using labial pulps over the gill structure.

43
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What are bivalves important in?

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Benthic-pelagic coupling. Links the two environments, as it can draw food down from the water column above to the benthic environment.

44
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What is pseudofaeces?

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Formed when a suspension feeder rejects particles that have not yet gone through the digestive system.

45
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Classify barnacles.

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Sub-phylum crustaceans, class Maxillopoda, Infraclass Cirripedia

46
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Describe barnacles.

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  • Filter feeders
  • Wave ‘legs’, called cirri, in air
  • Plates on upper surface open to allow cirri to come out
47
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Classify sessile polychaetes.

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Phylum Annelida, Class Polychaeta

48
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Describe sessile polychaetes.

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Stuck to rocks, use feathery appendages to capture particles in seawater.
Have chaetae, modified bristles, in each segment.
Can regrow tails.

49
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Give and describe two sessile polychaetes.

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  • Spirobranchius (christmas tree worm); captures particles from water and draws down to the gut.
  • Lugworm; alike an Earthworm, lives in the sand. Feeds on detritus and converts it to more complex forms of carbon.
50
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What is detritus?

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The remains of dead plants, animals or decal pellets colonised by bacteria.

51
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Give an important deposit feeder in tropical environments.

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Sea cucumbers

52
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Describe deposit wedding by lugworms.

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  • Lives in a burrow
  • Draws current in from one end by pumping its body
  • Water and sand moves together, drawing water over gills and ingesting sand.
  • Digest organic material such as microorganisms and detritus present in sediment, using strong gut enzymes that strip organic matter off of the sand.
53
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Describe Bobbit worms.

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Benthic predators.
Polychaetes.
Omnivorous.
Launch themselves out of sediment and consume anything above them.
Can grow up to 3m long.
54
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The more links in the food web…

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The less energy available to support top predators.

55
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Give the range of energy transfer that varies with species.

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10%-60%

56
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What can be used to measure secondary production?

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  • A production/biomass ratio

- Stable isotope (carbon and nitrogen) analysis

57
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In what kind of organisms is production/biomass ratio higher?

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In small organisms

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