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Ecosystem Dynamics: Climate, Species Interaction, Succession

Explore the role of climate, community interactions, and ecological succession in shaping ecosystems. Learn about weather, climate zones, habitat, niche, competition, predation, symbiosis, and ecological succession processes.

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Ecosystem Dynamics: Climate, Species Interaction, Succession

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  1. Chapter 4 Ecosystems & Communities

  2. 4–1 The Role of Climate • Words you need to know: • Weather • Climate • The Greenhouse Effect • Climate Zones  • polar zones (66.5° and 90° North and South latitudes) • temperate zones (between the polar zones and the tropics) • tropical zone (23.5° North and 23.5° South latitudes)

  3. Heat Transport • winds and ocean currents

  4. 4–2 What Shapes an Ecosystem? • Biotic & abiotic factors • Habitat = the area where an organism lives (biotic and abiotic factors that affect it) • Niche = full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions

  5. no two species can share the same niche in the same habitat

  6. Community Interactions • Competition = organisms of the same or different species attempt to use an ecological resource in the same place at the same time • Resource = any necessity of life (water, nutrients, light, food, or space) • competitive exclusion principle = ecological rule that states that no two species can occupy the same exact niche in the same habitat at the same time

  7. Predation = interaction in which one organism captures (kills) and feeds on another organism  • Predator / Prey

  8. Symbiosis = Any relationship in which two species live closely together • mutualism • commensalism • parasitism

  9. Mutualism = symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the relationship

  10. Commensalism = symbiotic relationship in which one member of the association benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

  11. Parasitism = symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives in or on another organism (the host) and consequently harms it • Host / parasite

  12. Ecological Succession • Ecosystems are constantly changing in response to natural and human disturbances. • ecological succession = gradual change in living communities that follows a disturbance

  13. Primary Succession  • primary succession = succession that occurs on surfaces where no soil exists • Volcano • Glacier

  14. pioneer species = first species to populate an area during primary succession • Often lichens

  15. Secondary Succession  • secondary succession = succession following a disturbance that destroys a community without destroying the soil • land cleared and plowed for farming is abandoned • Wildfires

  16. climax community = mature, stable community that did not undergo further succession • Old growth forests

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