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BIO281 – Nutrient Cycling: Carbon in the Colorado Plateau LECTURE 16: ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY PART II

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BIO281 – Nutrient Cycling: Carbon in the Colorado Plateau LECTURE 16: ECOSYSTEM ECOLOGY PART II 1. Look over your data. Which reservoirs did you visit? I visited biosphere soil, plant, and ani ... mal. I also visited atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere fossil fuel and limestone as well. 2. In which reservoir(s) did you stay for just a short period of time? Why do you think you were only there a short while? 3. What processes move carbon fairly quickly from one reservoir to another? For example, what processes move carbon from the atmosphere to the biosphere? What processes moves carbon from the biosphere to the atmosphere? 4. In which reservoirs did you remain for millions of years before you were able to go to a new reservoir? 5. Did you become any man-made (anthropogenic) sources of carbon when you played the game? What evidence do you see of humans changing the carbon cycle? In which carbon reservoir does most of this “extra” carbon accumulate? 6. Describe how the modern carbon cycle would differ from the pre-industrial carbon cycle. The modern carbon cycle would differ because the process of burning and using machinery that releases 7. Please use the date table on page 1 to diagram your movement through the carbon cycle. 8. Only 1/person per group needs to do #8. Take a picture of your diagram from #7 and post it 9. What similarities and/or differences do you see between your path and that of other groups in the class? 10. When observing the collective results from the entire class, did any patterns emerge from this comparison? [Show More]

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