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ECOLOGY!
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What is Ecology? - study of the interactions
among organisms and between organisms and their environment.
Some Vocabulary Review!
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What is EcologyBIOTIC FACTORS – all living
things in an environmentEx: plants and animals
ABIOTIC FACTORS – all the non living things (physical and chemical)
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VocabularySmallest unit in
Ecology….Individual Organism –
one organism in an ecosystem
Population – group of individuals of the same species living in a particular area.
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EcologyCommunity – two or more different
populations living together
Ecosystem – all abiotic and biotic factors in an area
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EcologyBiosphere – the sum of all Earth’s ecosystems
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EcologyMain ABIOTIC factors to know!
SunlightWaterTemperatureSoilWindSevere disturbances
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Different environments on Earth : CLIMATE
What is climate? - usually look at the temperature
and rainfall of a particular area
- Different patterns due largely to the uneven heating of the Earth
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Uneven heating patterns
Because the earth is a sphere – the sun’s rays hit it at different angles causing the different climate zones
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Wind and Rain patterns
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Food Webs and Energy
• Review:– Autotrophs- producers– Heterotrophs- consumers and decomposers– Herbivores- primary consumers (eat plants)– Carnivores- secondary consumers (eat
herbivores)– Decomposers- consume organic wastes and
dead organisms.
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Food Webs and Energy
• 10% rule- each level of the food pyramid receives 10% of the energy from the level below it.
Hawk (8 kcal)Snakes (80 kcal)Herbivores (800 kcal)Grasses (8,000 kcal)
Hawks need to eat a lot more to get the energy they need
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Food Web and Energy
• Biomass- the total quantity of living matter at each trophic level.
• Just like available energy decreases, so does biomass at each level.
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Relationships in Ecosystems
• Predation- one species (predator) consumes another (prey).
• Competition occurs when two species are consuming the same prey.
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Relationships in Ecosystems
• Niche- particular combination of resources that a species is adapted to.
• Example: A niche is available in forests for an animal that can live in the treetops and eat fruit.
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Relationships in Ecosystems
• Symbiosis- Relationships in which species live together – Mutualism- both species benefit– Parasitism- one organism gains at the expense of the
other– Commensalism- one organism benefits and the other
is unaffected
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Limiting Factors
• Factors that limit productivity in an ecosystem– Supply of water for desert plants– Supply of light – Supply of iron for algae– Supply of nitrogen in the soil– Temperature
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Limiting Factors
• Productivity and population size of other species– Population size of birds is limited by
productivity of insects that they eat– Or by the availability of nesting sites
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Population Dynamics
• Two types of population growth– Exponential- growth under ideal conditions. Will result
in enormous numbers of individuals.– Logistic- At first grows normally but slows down as
competition and other factors limit reproduction and survival.
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Carrying capacity
• The largest population of a species that the environment can support. – Are not stable– Invention of fertilizers led to more crops which
led to more humans. The increase in crops could support a higher carrying capacity for humans.