BIO120H1 Lecture Notes - No Rain, Wandering Albatross, Lapse Rate
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Meadow jumping mouse vs. house mouse (biomedical mouse) White sheet, shine a bright light at night. Nobody could come up with a good guess because too much traffic. All have long extensions: nectar spurs w/ sugar water that piles up at bottom of spur. Adapted for long tongued hawk moths come to flowers and push tongues all the way down. Related descended from ancestors that look more like the blue one. What forces causes this adaptation: ubiquity of patchiness. Ecology science of distribution, abundance of organism. Why animals are in certain places and not in other places. Patchiness - organisms are not spread evenly, but also not randomly. World presents variation and organisms sort out. Found in some places and not others for reasons not through random. Differences between that vegetated or bare all driven by water. Short grass land & semi desert in lowlands. Mountains catch enough rain green & forested.
