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Introduction to ecosystems

This illustration shows a desert jack rabbit in a shaded depression behind a bush. Arrows are pointing from the sun at the ground and the bush. Arrows are also pointing away from the rabbit into the sky and towards the bush. Different elements are labelled with their temperature in degrees Celsius. The bush is labelled as 34, the rabbit’s body at 40, the rabbit’s ears at 38, the air just in front of the rabbit at 35, the air as 42, the ground where the sun is shining as 70 and the ground below the surface as 35. There is also a label which reads ‘north sky radiation temperature’ which has the number 13 underneath it. This illustration shows a desert jack rabbit in a shaded depression behind a bush, with numbers representing temperature. Areas in direct sunlight are hotter temperatures than those in the depression.

 3.1.3 Behavioural strategies of evaporators