BIOA02H3 Chapter 52: Ecology and the Distribution of Life

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What is ecology: the scientific study of interactions between organisms and their environment, how interactions with the physical environment changes the environment, community isn"t just one specific species, all the species, ecosystem is community in the abiotic ecosystem. Tundra: any area that is relatively flat, not a lot of vegetation, area of permafrost, land that never thaws out, always remains frozed, never drains, not a lot of vegetation, animals tend to be migratory (migrate or hibernate) Boreal forest: a lot of everygreen, winters are long and summers are short, evergreen take advantage of climate due to short summer www. notesolution. com. Biology i i: don"t need to shed off leaves, can photosynthesis in the short period of summer. Temperate deciduous forest: a lot of species richness, deciduous leave do loose their leaves over the winter, precipitation is distributed evenly but temperature fluctuate dramatically.

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describe your ecosystemâyour interactions with your biotic environment and your physical environment. Include your food relationships, competition, wastes, parasites, and all other ways in which you interact within your ecosystem.

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Ecology is the study of how organisms interact with their environment. Thus, a central question in ecology concerns how organisms respond to environmental variation. The flip side of this question is to ask whether the variation in characteristics of organisms is the result of variation in features of the environment. This variation can occur in space or through time.

1. Make a list of all the environmental variables that you can think of that are likely to be important to organisms. Think about plants and microbes as well as animals.

1A. One environmental change of great concern to us is climate change, specifically the prospect of human-caused global warming, a topic to which we will return. How do organisms respond to this spatial and temporal variability in the environment?

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Plants and animals do not operate independently of one another. In fact, it is how these organisms interact that often defines form and function. Ecology is the branch of biology that focuses on these species interactions with each other in the habitats that they live. In light of the many human-induced changes to the environment, it would be impossible to study ecology without accounting for anthropogenic effects. Assume you are an ecologist studying local flora and fauna in San Diego. Describe the effects of human development in a local habitat (e.g. coastal, desert, chaparral, grassland, wetland, etc.). How will continued global climate change effect species adapted to a specific environment? What conservation and management measures could be implemented to protect native species in San Diego?

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