Ecology Reading

Chapter 50 An Introduction to Ecology and the Biosphere p. 1092

Read pages 1092-1098

the interactions between organisms and their environments. P. 1093

·        Abiotic

·        Biotic

Ecological research ranges form the adaptations of organisms of the dynamic of ecosystem p. 1093

·        Organismal ecology

·        Population

·        Community

·        Ecosystem

·        Figure 50.2 p. 1094

·        Biosphere

·        Biomes

Species dispersal contributes to the distribution of organisms p. 1096

·        Dispersal

·        Problem with Introduced Species p. 1097

§         Understand the problem and note an example

 

Biotic factors affect the distrubution of organisms p. 1099

·        the role predation, disease and competition plays on transplanted species

 

Important Abiotic Factors p. 1100

·        Temperature

·        Water

·        Sunlight

·        Wind

·        Rocks and soil

·        Periodic disturbances

 

 

 

Temperature and water are the major climatic factos determing the distribution of organisms. P. 1100

This section goes over the different Biomes….You should read this section though the handout should be enough to get you through this section.

·        See figure 50.24 p. 1112 and Figure 50.25 p. 1114-1115

 

 

Aquatic Biomes p. 1106

·        Ponds

·        Lakes

·        Photic zone

·        Aphotic zone

·        Thermocline

·        Detritus

·        Figure 50.18 p. 1107

·        Figure 50.22 p. 1110