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Ecosystem functioning and services
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Lecture 1 of Martin Skov Ecosytem functioning and services Contains material about functioning and why an ecosystem may fail and consequently thee results. Talks about what are systems and ecosystem functions etc.
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Ecosystem functioning and services
Ecosystem and services
Ecosystems are dynamic interrelated collections of living and non-living components organised in self-regulating units
Ecosystem by scale
Microbial to global
Biotically defined
Foundation species
Ecological unit
Abiotically defined
Nature of physical environment
Systems
Systems are built on connectivity, within ecosystems or between ecosystems.
Systems by connectivity
E.g. fish moving between geographical regions
A system defined by connectivity: subcomponents of system cannot be treated in isolation
Members of the system
Spatial relationship
e.g. Ecosystems are usually biotically or abiotically defined
Connectivity of processes relationship
E.g. Food-web, Nutrients etc
Network of ecosystems
Ecosystem function
What ecosystems do: it is an old concept
Nutrient uptake
Bioturbation
Biomass production
Functions at different scales
Microbial scale
Plankton ecosystem
Primary production etc
Big scale
Plankton ecosystem
Regulation of fisheries and food webs etc
Global ecosystem
Climate regulation
'Functioning'
Operating of and/ or performances of:
Selected processes and properties of the system. E.g. oxygen uptake, bioturbation.
The system as a whole. E.g. How the systems life-persistence mechanisms work.
The roles played in the workings of the system. E.g. role played by predator, prey etc. NTR: Same role can performed by different actors.
Providing benefit to people. ECOSYSTEM SERVICES. Noticable difference is the benefit a system provides.
Ecosystem services
Ecosystem provide goods and services to people. This distunguishes itself from "functions".
"Services by natural environments that benefit people"
Four classes of services. (PRSC).
Provisioning service. E.g. food, water etc
Regulation service. E.g. Carbon sequestration, Coastal proctection
Supporting services. e.g. Nutrient cycling, primary production
Cultural services
Constanza et al. 1997. 33 trillion dollars for global ecosystem services per annum
Cost benefit analysis: cost of maintaining/ cost of losing
Failing functions and services
Will occur when services or expected function change or fail.
E.g. natural coastal protection loss leads to terrestrial land erosion
E.g Poor water quality for fish leads to mortality
Why do ecosystems fail?
There are key cornerstones that must be met
Intrinsic abiotic and biotic properties
Species compostion
Chemical and physical gradients
Extrinsic forcing agents and links
Drivers such as climate weather tc.
Factors associated with biotic and abiotic connectivity.
Thresholds
Tolerance and gradient ranges
Systems exist within their tolerance range along gradients in abiotic and biotic factors.
Systems lie along multiple interacting gradients.
Functional regime
Made up of the intrinsic biotic and abiotic properties
Extrinsic forcing agents and links
Conclusion
Function will depend on where, along the gradients of interacting intrinsic and extrinsic regimes the system is positioned.
Shift a gradient and it will affect the system and the whole functional regime.
Systems might collapse if the nature of inherent and external properties shift too far from system tolerance ranges.
Regime shift
Shift in general characteristics of biotic/ abiotic factors
Extremes can also result in regime shifts. But are determined by value and duration
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