BIO130H1 Lecture Notes - Rain Shadow, Volumetric Heat Capacity, Westerlies
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Aspects of performance: individual survival individual growth reproduction. Death zone has 1/3 oxygen level as sea level. For terrestrial plants from biggest to smallest: temp 2) soil moisture 3)nutrients: n is imp,p,k 4)disturbance like fire 5) disease, For aquatic plants, there is also salinity, but no moisture and fire. For terrestrial animals it"s important to have: food and water 2) temperature 3) habitat 4) predation/disease. For aquatic animals, salinity and osmotic pressure is important. High latitudes = cold = seasonality because of temperature. (summer/winter) Low latitudes = warm = seasonality because of rainfall. (dry/wet seasons) Rainfall depends on atmospheric circulation, ocean currents and rain shadows. At high latitudes, light strikes the earth (at low angle) with more surface area than head on (high angle) at the equator. This differential heating drives the earth"s atmospheric heat engine. Adiabatic lapse rate : rate of decrease of atmospheric temperature with increase in altitude.
