Thursday, November 16, 2017

Ecoclogical analysis of the garden

What are some abiotic factors on which your plant depends for its survival? What about biotic factors that affect your plant? Describe some of these factors
Some abiotic factors our plant depended on to survive were soil, sunlight, water, temperature/climate. Some biotic factors are other plants competing for nutrients, sunlight, space, water, as well as other abiotic factors and also if the plants are receiving enough nutrients.
How do you know your plants are engaged in competition? For what are your plants competing, and who is the competition?
Yes, my plant is engaged in competition. I know this because the space in which it was planted was a tightly constructed planter box. It was also planted with many other plants, so they are all competing for the abiotic factors i stated above against the other plants with them.
How are "winners" and "losers" determined in this struggle? Is it always so clear cut who "wins" and who "loses?" What makes that determination complicated sometimes?
It is not always definite which plants lose or win, since some plants have a life cycle shorter than that of another plant in competition of them. Ususally the plants that are the healthiest and grow the tallest or widest are the "winners" of the competition. Those who look malnourished, shorter or smaller are are the "losers" of the competition.
Describe other types of interaction (besides competition) in which your plants are involved. Make sure to explain how this interaction affects each organism involved.
Some plant and animals both benefit from being with each other, which is mutualism. An example of that happening with the plants in our garden is the bees taking the pollen from the plants, so the plants can more easily produce pollen quicker.  However, sometimes plants are harmed when working with another organism, because one organism is benefiting while the other is negatively affected. An example of this is aphids feeding on a plant. They are weakening the plant and take away the nutrients the plant needs to survive.
What evidence is there in the garden that succession (or something like it) is occurring in the garden ecosystem? Does it seem more like primary or secondary succession?
Succession can be noticed in an environment when new organisms grow on a land that had been previously housing other living plants that gt destroyed. Our plants are more secondary succession, because gardens had been planted where they are now previously and the plats had died or been transported somewhere else. It would not have been primary succession because that would mean that our plants started on fresh, brand new ground.


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