Victoria Park Reserve Forest Area

Plants are found everywhere on earth, up high on the ridge and down low in caves and caverns. The types of plants that live in these places depends on many factors. These factors are separated into two different categories, the biotic factors and the abiotic factors. Some of the biotic factors include, predation, competition, and habitat destruction. Plants with limited competition and large amounts of resources will be in a higher abundance than plants with limited resources and higher competition rates will be confined to areas and either out competed or will be the dominant species. Certain plants adapt to these factors and thrive and others don’t do as well. Some of the abiotic factors include, sunlight, water, temperature, and wind. These

ECOLOGY HW Is to be typed using 12 pt Times New Roman Font. Double space the text with a heading on PAGE 1 only. This assignment is to be submitted to turnitin.com only. PLEASE do not include the questions in the document, this will only DRASTICALLY raise your turnitin score. Feel free to submit as soon as it is completed.

The bar chart was used to compare the number of species in each transect. In transect A, there were 5 different species. The species in this area were mostly grass, forbs, moss, bugs and beetles. Bugs and beetles made up a small population of this transect. In transect B, there were also 5 species. The species were mostly grass, shrubs, forbs, moss and bugs. In this transect, shrubs were found which makes transect B more diversed than A. In Transect C, 8 species were located in this area. The species included shrubs, grass, fobs, evergreen, trees, dirt, bugs and spiders. New species such as evergreen, trees, dirt and spiders were located in this location. Therefore the test that diversity happens through ecological succession was

Australia has many wonders up its sleeve. If you will just take the time to discover what these are, you will realise that you will not run out of things to do in this country. And, one of the most loved places you should experience is the Grampians National Park.

The annual rate of precipitation, and elevational range once generated a strong foundation for a wide diversity of vegetation

Biomes are appropriate conditions for organizing the natural world because the organisms that live in them common constellations of adaptations, particularly the climate of each of the areas and the characteristic vegetation types that develops in these divisions. It should be understood that the climate is perhaps the most important in determining classes of individuals who may live in an area and the ways they should be amended to live under different conditions of temperature and precipitation and seasonal distribution of these factors element. Every place on Earth has its own climate, influenced by both macroclimate regions as the particular microclimate. The soils are very important because they are essential to determine the types of plants that will grow into a bioclimatic zone in partical, in addition, also as substrates for animals serve. In turn, the soils are heavily influenced by regional climate, as well as the geology of the bedrock. At the same time we have to keep in mind the diversity of plants like the flora just like the diversity of the fauna as well as the adaptation of both.

Ecosystems is the dynamic complex of plant, animal and micro-organism communities and their non-living environment that work together to form a functional unit and they are constantly changing due to the fluctuating equilibrium from natural stress and human action which has had adversarial impacts on ecosystems. This is evident in Minnamurra rainforest as human induced modifications and environmental stresses had resulted in a vulnerable ecosystem. Furthermore, the removal of factors that contribute to the vulnerability of an ecosystem is important as it affect the functioning of the ecosystem as processes are accelerated, biodiversity is decreased which greatly affects humans. Despite the negative effects caused by humans, they have discovered that ecosystems are susceptible from harm caused by natural environmental factors or human impacts and realised the importance of protecting and managing ecosystems therefore have implemented management strategies that are supposed to prevent further detriment and as a consequence may induce resiliency.

For this week’s task of reviewing a project, organization or park related to protecting biodiversity, I have selected to write about Scott's Run Nature Preserve park, you can find the link/URL of the park below. The park is located in McLean, Virginia, part of Fairfax County, Virginia which borders that state of Maryland and America’s capital, Washington D.C.. Scott’s Run nature preserve park lacks an official mission, although, based on the park’s history, the local residents in partnership with a national conservation organization fought to preserve the land from a housing developer that plans to build homes within this land in the mid-sixties. Eventually, the local residents were able to acquire the land from the developer by agreeing to

Imagine taking a relaxing walk in the bright warm summer air and all you can hear is the birds chirping around you. The Lime Creek Nature Center could provide this very opportunity! Lime Creek is a site in Mason City that informs visitors all about native plants and animals. The Lime Creek Nature Center is an old site in Mason City that is still thriving today, providing education, and fun activities for those who lives in Mason City or chose to visit, with numerous activities to do such as hunting, fishing, and many more things as well.

British Colombia in Canada, much like California in the United States, used to be a shallow sea and home to much sea life and is now home to thousands of marine animal fossils. For this reason it is believed that Dinosaur Provincial Park consisted of a lot of sands and muds that are characteristic of costal plains (Sues, Henderson, & Tanke, 2010, pg. 1292). When Sues, Henderson, and Tanke (2010) where going about measuring fossil shifts and the amount of fossils that have been lost they took into account the amount of soil that erodes away every year, the vertical and horizontal distribution fossils found within the park, and large landmarks such as rivers and glaciers that could effect fossils in the area (pg.1293). Accounting for these factors

he canopy describes the dense foliage in the upper region of the layers of stratification within a rainforest environment. This feature of an ecosystems dictates determines the abiotic features for the plants below. The features key features of humidity, sunlight and wind strength is controlled by the canopy layer. The conditions created by the canopy commonly favours the survival of other large tree, as higher quality light, which is essential for the process of photosynthesis is found closer to the opening of the canopy. As seen in the first photo on the right, a gap in the canopy caused by the falling of a large tree has significant impacts on the function of the ecosystem. This disturbance causes the onset of the recycling of nutrients

A biome, also known as life zones, consists of all plants, animals, and other organisms, as well the physical environment in a particular area. A biome is characterized by its’ plant life, climate, and location. The climate and physical features determine the boundaries of a biome. A biome is made up of many different ecosystems. The ecosystems tend to have the same pants and animals as neighboring biomes around the boundaries. The major biomes are the tundra, taiga, tropical rain forest, temperate forests, desert, grassland, savanna, chaparral, and marine. Each biome has it’s own characteristics such as the tundra.

This book focuses on plants evolutionary impact on the rest of the Earth. It begins by focusing on the importance of leaves to plants, as well as the presence of genes in earlier plants, without the genes necessarily being activated. It moves to a basic overview of greenhouse gases before continuing onto oxygen’s history on earth and its effects on almost all organisms. The book also comments on plants’ interaction with oxygen and the cycling of oxygen. The next couple of chapters focus especially on plants’ effect on the atmosphere. They also consider plant fossil’s ability to show evidence of different atmospheric variants, such as ultraviolet radiation and carbon dioxide levels. Then the book goes on to explain how plant fossils can also show how very different the plant was millions of years ago, by the anatomy and physiology of the plants as well as the location of the fossils. It then continues on how plants with different strengths interact with each other and end up affecting the Earth’s biosphere and atmosphere. An example is gymnosperms which use wind pollination and can colonize recently devastated ecosystems, and angiosperms with flowers and fruits, which focus on insect and animal pollination, meaning they do better in established ecosystems.

Ecology today can be defined as “the study of the interrelationships between living things and their environment”. It is important to understand that when we say that ecology includes the “environment”, we are talking about everything that is external to an organism, all the biotic and abiotic. Nowadays it also attempts to understand and explain the how and why of the origins and mechanisms of interactions.

Biodiversity presents occurrence of variety of species and their natural community in which they live. By the definition it is “The degree of variation of life forms within a given species, ecosystem, biome, or an entire planet. It is a measure of the health of ecosystems and is in part a function of climate.” (Rutherford) Ecosystem is on the other hand, “ community and its abiotic environment”( Rutherford). Biodiversity exists in every ecosystem, weather it is big one, or just ecosystem of one garden, it has the same importance because without it nature loses its ability to perform major functions needed for life on Earth, as it is oxygen production. Trough this investigation, two different ecosystems will be explored and