BIOL 4803 Chapter all: BIOL 1511 Website Notes
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Ecology study of how organisms interact with their environment. Behavior how an individual responds to a stimulus. Population ecology how individuals of the same species interact with each other. Ecosystem ecology how organisms interact with non-living components of the environment; a collection of living and nonliving things interacting in a specific place. Ecological communities are classified according to temperature and precipitation profiles: biomes: terrestrial, aquatic, or marine, biomes typically arranged based on latitude. Interruptions to this pattern occur when major geologic features run counter to latitude. Andes in s. america runs from top to bottom of the continent, disrupting the east-to-west patterns evident in. Ocean upwelling important process that recycles nutrients and energy in the ocean when winds hit the ocean, nutrients from the ocean floor move to the top of the ocean. Heritable response to stimuli are genetically encoded. Proximate cause how the action occurs (e. g. stickleback attack behavior red visual cue); the stimulus.
