FARE 1040 Chapter Notes - Chapter Lab: Antarctic Bay, Climax Community, Dynamic Equilibrium
21 Apr 2016
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Natural resources defense council describes the need for a greater spiritual bond between ourselves and the natural world similar to god"s covenant with creation . It is necessary to protect every animal and plant species, babbitt said, because the earth is a sacred precinct, designed by and for the purposes of the creator, . Darwin"s theory of evolution deals with a competitive struggle among individual plant and animal species. This fact raises the question of how, even in concept, one ecosystem, lacking any genes, might be said to compete in evolutionary terms with another. Clements"s great ecological contribution was his view that natural systems are constantly moving toward and often attain a climax state. = equilibrium (ecosystems evolve) Disturbances frequently occur in nature, and therefore no climax state can endure for long without change. Climax community include such variables as temperature, rainfall, wind, elevation, and soil type.
