FUNCTIONAL ECOSYSTEM (MIDTERMS)

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Ecosystem

-area that contains biota
-could be natural or man made in origiin

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Flora
Fauna
Microorganism

Biota refers to

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Biotic and abiotic

Features of an ecosystem

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A to b
A to A
B to A
B to b

Interactions of those components

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Intraspecific
Interspecific

in b to b interaction there are sub interaction what are those?

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Phtosynthesis
Chemosynthesis

Energy Conversion

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Roy Clapham

who develope the term “ECOSYSTEM” around 1930

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Ecotope

ecosystem later defined it using the term ??

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Biotic compoennts

ecosystem liare the living organism that ecxist in the system
-producer/ consumer / decompose

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Autotrophs

-aka producer
-capture the suns energy through photosynthesis

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Heterotrophs

-aka consumers/ macroconsumers

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Herbivore

eat only plants

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omnivore

eat bothplant and animal

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Carnivores

eat only animals

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decomposers

]-aka microconsumers

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Biome

-aka life zones

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Ecotopes

-smallest eclogically distinct landscape features
-combination of a and b factors

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Patch

ecotope into

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Patch

nonlinear surface area differing in appearance from its sorrounding

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Ecotone

transition area between two adjacent but different plant communities (foes and grassland)

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Edge effect

increased variety of plants as well as animals at community iss called

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Biotope

an area where life lives
-bios=life; topos= place

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Microecosystem

critical environmenta; factors within small or tiny spaces

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Quantitative Method

collecting numerical data

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Quadrat Method

define a fixed area called plot
-rectangular frame

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Transect Method

establishment of baseline along which sampling is conducted

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Belt Transect Method

rectangular plot that iss divided into regular blocks
elongated quadrat

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/Abundance

estimates quantity of species

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Density

measured by actual count, per unit area

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Frequency

% of sample plots in which a species group appears

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Richness

number of species occuring in a study area

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Biomass

dry weight of total vegetation/ target species inside a quadrat

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