Disc306_Group4_Core Concept Map by KEEGAN MCCULLOUGH https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn Keegan McCullough, Zachary Sayner, Alexis Arnold, Morgan Burns en-us 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC 2020-12-07 20:05:13 UTC hello@padlet.com S5: Interactions between and among biological entities can generate new system properties. kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203635 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203635 S1: Biological entities interact through chemical and physical signals that can be short-lived, depend on how they are organized in space, and are influenced by things in the environment. kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203636 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203636 S2: Changes in one part of a biological system can influence or be influenced by other parts of the same system. kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203637 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203637 S3: Biological systems can be defined at different scales, interact within and across scales, and together form complex networks. kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203639 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203639 S4: Biological systems include and are affected by living and non-living factors in the environment. kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203640 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203640 Limnologist kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203641 As a limnologist I take samples to examine organisms and its interaction with its ecosystem. In this case, changes in oxygen content due to the break down of cyanobacteria by microbes will impact other organisms within the same system. The fish in the water will not be able to survive in the oxygen-deficient “dead zone” and therefore, are being impacted by cyanobacteria. This depletion will affect the fish’s internal system in its inability to get oxygen in the water through its gills. ]]> 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203641 kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203642 Since Bacteria is a biological entities since bacteria is considered living. They interact through chemical interactions because they require phosphorus from lawn fertilize to thrive. Without high levels of phosphorous, the living environment isn't suitable for the cyanobacteria. ]]> 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203642 Water Chemist kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203643 If people were to decrease their use of high-phosphorus fertilizers and prevent yard waste from washing into storm drains, that could decrease the amount of cyanobacterial blooms that form in waterways.]]> 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203643 Agricultural Chemist kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203644 Run off from certain fertilizers can cause an increase in phosphorus in an aquatic system which cyanobacteria use for nitrogen fixation. This  means the bacteria can bloom in turn blocking sunlight from reaching other organisms that need it. ]]> 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203644 Agricultural Chemist kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203645 An increase in phosphorus can cause bacteria populations to greatly increase meaning aquatic plants have less sunlight. The bacteria can also emit toxins causing neuro damage in organisms that use the water as a drinking source. ]]> 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203645 kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203647 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203647 Limnologist kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203648 A non-living factor is the nutrients that is entering the water as run-off. This nutrients creates a positive environment for cyanobacteria to bloom. Looking at the amount of plants surrounding the body of water, I can determine how much of that nutrients is being absorbed before reaching the cyanobacteria. The non-living factor of nutrients (phosphorous) are interacting with the living factors of plants and cyanobacteria, causing their population to increase or decrease. ]]> 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203648 Water Chemist kjmccullough https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203649 If the community tooks steps toward restoring the natural shoreline and installing silt curtains for construction sites, then that would lead to healthier bodies of water that contain less cyanobacterial blooms.]]> 2020-11-20 21:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kjmccullough/2j8vurcj919tf3pn/wish/947203649