Figure 50'5 Flowchart of factors limiting geographic distribution

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Figure 50.5 Flowchart of factors limiting
geographic distribution
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Figure 50.9 Predator-removal experiments
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Figure 50.10 A climograph for some major kinds
of ecosystems (biomes) in North America
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Figure 50.18 Zonation in a lake
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Figure 50.19 Freshwater biomes Oligotrophic
lake (left), eutrophic lake (top right), stream
flowing into a river (bottom right)
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Figure 50.21 Wetlands (top) and estuaries
(bottom)
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Figure 50.22 Zonation in the marine environment
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Figure 50.24 The distribution of major
terrestrial biomes
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Figure 52.3 Idealized survivorship curves
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Figure 52.8 Population growth predicted by the
exponential model
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Figure 52.9 Example of exponential population
growth in nature
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Figure 52.10 Reduction of population growth rate
with increasing population size (N)
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Figure 52.11 Population growth predicted by the
logistic model
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Figure 52.12 How well do these populations fit
the logistic population growth model?
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Figure 52.13 Graphic model showing how
equilibrium may be determined for population
density
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Table 53.1 Interspecific Interactions
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Figure 53.2 Testing a competitive exclusion
hypothesis in the field
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Figure 53.5 Camouflage Poor-will (left), lizard
(right)
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Figure 53.6 Aposematic (warning) coloration in a
poisonous blue frog
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Figure 53.x1 Deceptive coloration moth with
"eyeballs"
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Figure 53.7 Batesian mimicry
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Figure 53.8 Müllerian mimicry Cuckoo bee
(left), yellow jacket (right)
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Figure 53.x2 Parasitic behavior A female
Nasonia vitripennis laying a clutch of eggs into
the pupa of a blowfly (Phormia regina)
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Figure 53.10 Examples of terrestrial and marine
food chains
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Figure 53.11 An antarctic marine food web
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Figure 54.1 An overview of ecosystem dynamics
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Figure 54.3 Primary production of different
ecosystems
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Figure 54.11 An idealized pyramid of net
production
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Figure 54.12 Pyramids of biomass (standing crop)
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Figure 54.13 A pyramid of numbers
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Figure 54.14 Food energy available to the human
population at different trophic levels
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Figure 54.16 The water cycle
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Figure 54.17 The carbon cycle
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Figure 54.18 The nitrogen cycle
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Figure 54.19 The phosphorous cycle