2.4 - 2.6 Ecological tolerance, Natural Disruptions to Ecosystems, and Adaptations

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ECOLOGICAL TOLERANCE

range of conditions, such as temperature, salinity, flowrate, and sunlight that an organism can endure before injury or death results.

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Limiting factors

•It is the environmental factor that is most often in short supply

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Natural disruptions

a significant disturbance or event in the environment caused by natural forces

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What makes modern-day change, with anthropogenic causes, different from all the previous natural change?

Frequency and intensity

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Resistance

Ability to remain unchanged when being subjected to  disturbance

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Resilience

Ability and rate of an ecosystem to recover from a disturbance and return to its pre-disturbed state