ENVS 3710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Biotope, Soil Texture, Water Cycle
13 Apr 2013
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Looking at many landscapes within one; not just based one specific type of landscape. Organisms relationships with one another; and a relationship within their own physical environment. Ecosystem: living part (biome); non living (biotope) Climate: more than just weather; compose of number of things (interdependent) eg. temperature, light, moisture etc (create climate) Img: tropical rainforest in costa reaca the fog is generated by the trees, put out moisture by the trees. Define relationship each other: the plants define the soil and the soil define the plant optimize the plant and soil. Soil originate through wind, water erosion, cracking of rocks. Reactivity: major impact on nutrients in the soil; fertility (how much living matter can occur within a specific area); water might be there but not accessible to plants. Moisture: pattern (what could survive within an ecosystem) Aquatic biotopes hydrological cycle (how water behaves within an aquatic ecosystem) Surface runoff water that runs over the ground.
