BIOA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47.4: Pedogenesis, Pisaster Ochraceus, Prunus Pensylvanica

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA02H3
• Professor: Ivana Stehlik

Document Summary

Looking at all the species that occur together in the same place. Species that live in the same place make up communities. Community set of all the populations found in a given place. Frederic clements likened plant communities to a superorganism in which species interact strongly and predictably, like body organs. Henry gleason plant communities are the products of species" acting individually in time and space. Pops in a community are tied together by the various interactions that secure their spot in a food web as well as their physical location. Pops in a local community share same weather and encounter each other physically as they grow, reproduce, and die. Can often characterize communities by the principal plants and animals they harbor, such as cacti and lizards of deserts. Communities seem quite distinctive to us and easily recognized and they"re important as the local instances of biodiversity.