BIO120H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-3: Parent Material, Ecophysiology, Annual Plant
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Basic aspects of living organisms - how we"re different from a rock: ability to meet the challenges of an unrelentingly hostile environment, to grow, reproduce, adapt, and diversify! 3 traditional subsets of ecology covered in lectures: physiological ecology, population ecology, community ecology! Comparative method: basic approach of examining how different organisms meet environmental challenges in different ways, strongest when we know how the species are related to each other! Distribution of species: geographical range of a species (depicted by range map)! Usually contains different types of soil, limiting what plant species can thrive there! Species range limit often correspond to boundaries of different biomes! Thursday, october 27, 2016: develop taller vegetation, species-rich, more productive than dryer biomes! Ex. warmer places : supports bigger and more complex vegetation! Seasonality of temperature and precipitation: two regions with same annual cycle of temperature and annual rainfall, but rains in different seasons > support very different sets of organisms!
