DEFINITION OF ECOSYSTEMS.
is the set of living things that occupy a natural space and the relations established between them and the environment in which they live .
BIOCENOSIS.
the whole population is living in an area.
individuals in the community who belong to the same species form a population.
BIOTYPE.
The place or physical environment occupied by a community that is characterized by well-defined environmental conditions.
ECOLOGY.
is the science that studies the relationships between living beings and others as well as between them and the physical environment around them. His unit of study is the ecosystem, consisting of the biotope and biocenosis.
ECOSYSTEM = BIOCENOSIS + BIOTYPE
abiotic factors.
The environment of an organism is constituted by all the factors or conditions that exist in a place where you live and which influence him at some point in their lives.
abiotic factors are the physical and chemical characteristics that have a medium. Not directly dependent on living things, although its activity can be modified.
ENVIRONMENT.
each living environment.
- Factors influence climate: temperature, light and moisture.
- hydrological factors influences: temperature, light, salinity and dissolved gases.
- Factors influencing soil: physical structure and chemical composition.
biotic factors.
are those that arise as a result of the presence of other living beings, as the struggle for food or space, or mutual aid.
is a community consisting of organisms of different species including establishing multiple relationships.
These relationships can be: intraspecific and interspecific.
terrestrial ecosystems. Biomes.
are large ecosystems of beings lived communities that occupy a physical space with specific environmental conditions. MARINE
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· neritic: includes the area above the continental shelf.
· Ocean, located beyond the continental shelf.
· Pelagic: This is the illuminated area.
· bathyal: Located between 200 and 2,000 meters deep.
· Nether: the deepest part of the ocean.
marine areas are established according to the presence of light, the nature of the seabed, waves or currents.
trophic levels.
· Producers: They are autotrophs that produce their own organic matter from inorganic matter.
are plants, algae and photosynthetic bacteria.
· Consumers: They are heterotrophic organisms that feed on living material. There are several types:
- Primary: are the animals that feed on plants, also called herbivores.
- Secondary: feed on primary consumers. They are carnivorous animals. In some ecosystems may be tertiary or quaternary consumers.
· Decomposers: These are heterotrophic organisms that feed on remains of living organisms or their droppings and converted to inorganic compounds. Are fungi and many bacteria. PRESENTATION
trophic levels.
living beings depend on each other for food.
* The trophic structure of an ecosystem can be represented in several ways:
- A food chain consists of a linearly ordered set of organisms where each feeds off the previous serves, in turn, feed the next.
- A food web is a set of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem can be established.
- ecological trophic pyramids are forms of representation that are used to show how they change some features of the trophic levels to provide the value of the property being measured.
MATTER AND ENERGY FLOW.
organic matter serves as food producers to primary consumers of these, in turn, are eaten by secondary consumers. All of these organisms to die, generate organic waste.
- Producers convert energy solar energy into chemical energy. Passing through each trophic level of the energy is released in the breath and gave the environment as heat.
Another part of the energy goes straight to the individual organic when they die.
CHANGES IN STOCKS.
population growth is the increasing number of individuals that form over a period of time depends on the fertility, mortality, migration and immigration.
- The interactions between different species affect the size of their populations.
succession.
* Succession Primary succession is called primary if it starts in an area that has never been colonized. For example, a newly formed dunes.
* Secondary Succession: this term if it is set in an area where previously there was a community that has been partially or totally eliminated.
For example: a forest that has suffered a fire.
- A succession is not only an increase in the number of species, but the replacement of one community by another increasingly complex to reach the climax community.