Abiotic Factors In Biology

As defined by “Environmental Science- 14th Edition”, an ecosystem is “a set of organisms within a defined area or volume that interact with one another and with their environment of nonliving matter and energy.” I will be using the computer simulation to alter the interactions of the organisms in the ecosystem to see what changes occur.

Environmental pollution can adversely influence the ecosystem by minimizing the health and safety of the neighboring environment much needed for the organisms’ to existence. Habitat destruction is the second hazard that comes from human life increasing. To maintain human’s keep living, it is required to create regions for urban development, agriculture, and other much needed elements and pleasing living factors. Then again, the necessities to please the life of humans pose a threat to the life of organisms in the particular area. In the temperate forest ecosystem, numerous abiotic features play a part of its continued existence between the local organisms. The abiotic factors, which are nonliving factors that affect living organisms, are example things like its weather, light source, temperature, soil, minerals, air and water. The combination of these elements aid in the survival of the ecosystem alone and provide certain survival of the organisms in the environment (Viau, 2000). The organisms in the temperate forest ecosystem have undergone adjustments to assist or sustain the available resources and live through in the surrounding environment. Suitable modification ensures the survival of an organism in a particular

Abiotic factors refer to non-living physical and chemical elements in the ecosystem. These factors have effects on living things and determine which species survive in a particular environment.

In this lab write up, the population growth of a variety of living organisms was analyzed and upon analysis of graphs and background information given within the laboratory course notebook, the conclusion was made that abiotic factors are related to biotic factors in an ecosystem, if one factor is varied it can affect the entirety of the ecosystem. Abiotic factors have importance because they are directly correlated to how biotic organisms survive and the growth or decline of their populations. Abiotic factors refer to non-living physical and chemical elements in the ecosystem and biotic factors are living or once-living organisms in the ecosystem with the ability to reproduce and affect other organisms in the ecosystem.

Only one fish was from the duckweed container, and the other three were from the control container. After another three days, three fish had died, with two from the control, wiping all the population there out, and the remaining three goldfish were from the container with duckweed. When the goldfish died, they were floating on the top of the water, and their stomachs had a shiny, iridescent sheen. The bodies were deflated, and the stomachs had a cut through them.

Interactions between populations within communities also lead to complex properties. As environmental conditions change in time and space, the structure of the community changes both physically and biologically, resulting in a mosaic in the landscape (variety or patterns ) in a community. Communities are comprised of different populations of organisms that interact with each other in either negative or positive ways (e.g., competition, parasitism and mutualism); community ecology seeks to understand the manner in which groupings of species are distributed in nature, and how they are influenced by their abiotic environment and species interactions. The physical structure of a community is affected by abiotic factors, such as the depth and flow of water in a stream, and also by the spatial distribution of organisms, such as in the canopy of trees. The mix of species in terms of both the number of individuals and the diversity of species defines the structure of the community. Mathematical or computer models can be used to illustrate and investigate

The Great Barrier reef is one example for ecosystems which can be found all around the world. In general an ecosystem is a biological community that consist out of a physical environment in a certain area and its inhabitants like animals, humans, plans etc. As a community all factors are dependent on and affect each other.1 It becomes understandable that if one factor changes the whole system has to cope with it and so the whole ecosystem can be improved or damaged.

To get credit for this assignment, you must use this question sheet as a template for your answers. Answer the following questions comprehensively and in your own words: Do not plagiarize Primack or anyone else. Please set off your answers from the questions by using blue font, as illustrated here. This chapter reviews concepts and terms you learned in your introductory ecology or environmental science course.

An ecosystem is “A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.” As stated by Oxford Dictionary, 2017. An ecosystem can range in size from a tiny pond to, the entire world, by its definition. Ecosystems contain all of the complex relationships that occur between living things and their surroundings, including other living things (biotic factors) and non-living external factors (abiotic factors). The aim of this report is to investigate the effects of human activity on an ecosystem, I have chosen to base this report on the ecosystems that are generally seen in a desert biome. [98 words]

This would allow the algae eater to survive with food allowing the algae eater and we would test the amount of nutrients in the water compared to the amount of algae grown in the aquatic biomes. In the first biome, forest biome, it will consist of plants to replenish oxygen used by the crickets and fish. The survivability of the crickets will be determined on if the crickets will eat the ripe leaves of the plant. Also if the string connecting the forest and the aquatic biome will move water properly, so the crickets will have water to drink. This biome will be the main contributor to the hydraulic, nitrogen and phosphorus cycle. Next, in the first water biome, it will contain the algae eater and a plant, which should sustain the fish with oxygen and algae should grow from light and nutrients being moved around from the forest biome. Finally the last biome, the stand alone aquatic biome, which will only consist of pond water, but should have an abundance of algae because of the lack of biotic organisms and mass amount of nutrient being moved through the three chambers of the ecozone. We believe with the three biomes working together the nutrients, phosphate and nitrate, will be just enough for algae to grow. For phosphorus we believe the value of phosphate should be around .1 mg/L, while nitrate to be around 0-.15 mg/L. In these ideal conditions algae should grow and sustain the algae

The living organisms in a particular environment might be affected by physical factors such as temperature and quantity of light, Availability of water, Availability of nutrients, Availability of oxygen and carbon dioxide

Important characteristics of terrestrial organism’s environment would be to have DRY land in comparison to an aquatic animal. Oxygen is very important to a terrestrial organisms , it needs to always be available to the organism. The environmental temperature of the environment is less stable than in aquatic ,

Ecology is the scientific study of the relationships between organisms, the interactions between organisms and their environment, and the processes involved in the distribution of organisms. Flowers pollinated by honey bees in the middle of a field can be studied ecologically. For instance: the species of honey bee inhabiting this field of flowers can be analyzed, the amount of honey bees of this particular species found on this field can be calculated, and the factors affecting the honey bee population can be investigated. This form of ecological study is called population ecology as it studies a single species population in a given area. Studying the interaction between the honey bees and the flowers, instead, goes to a different category of ecology called community ecology. Community ecology studies the relationships and interactions between different populations in a given location. Studying a broader scope like the structure and functions of all the biotic and abiotic factors of the field, including the honey bees and the flowers, dives into a different category of ecology which is called ecosystem ecology. This category looks into all the interactions going on in the system and where the energy is flowing, which is a cycle that always starts from the producers of the system to the consumers of the system.

The purpose of this experiment is to become familiar with how an ecosystem works, and discover the most sustainable kind of ecosystem. Based on knowing how an ecosystem works, predictions have been made that state if a terrestrial mesocosm is sealed for four weeks with plants inside, it can continue to live and thrive sealed from the outside environment because the plants will gain their moisture from the humidity left in the sealed jar. The plants will use photosynthesis and carbon dioxide in order to transform the carbon dioxide into oxygen and water.

Ecology is the study of the interaction of living things between themselves, as well as their surrounding in their environment. It is important to study ecology so we can understand how the world around us works. The major components of an ecosystem are abiotic factors and biotic factors. Abiotic factors include rocks, the temperature of the ecosystem, the soil, sand, and the PH of the water. The Biotic factors are all the the autotrophs and animals that live in the ecosystem. A biosphere contains all of the ecological levels, and the only biosphere we know of is our Earth. In our Earth, the biosphere contain all ecological levels, but also the atmosphere. Our model shows a miniature biosphere because it contains both abiotic and biotic factors, as well as the moisture from the water input, that represents the atmosphere of the Earth.