GEOL 1003 : GEOL Test 2
Document Summary
Important concepts: major principles of ecology, niche know book vocabulary, community, factors governing environments, terrestrial, marine, freshwater. Principles of ecology: what is ecology, study of the factors that govern the distribution and. Environments: biogeography: distributions and abundances of a biota on a broad. Geographic scale: main limitation: climate (get weather, expect climate, long-term distribution of global t, precipitation, humidity, wind, atmospheric p, etc. (weather, interaction of ocean + atmosphere + land + biology, + physical barriers, ex. : evolution of mammoths in africa (pliocene) and migration through eurasia into n. america (pleistocene: atmosphere, temperature: earth"s surface is warmed by the sun, co2 in the atmosphere retains some of this heat. Brings o2 to deep water environments: marine biota varies with water depth, implications of depth: Salinity: biota according to limiting factors, photic has light for photosynthesis, pelagic mobile swimmers. Zooplankton: benthic suspension and deposit feeders, temperature, reefs, salinity, fresh.
