Unit 2.4 - Ecological Tolerance (copy)

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Ecological Range of Tolerance

Range of conditions such as temperature, salinity, pH, or sunlight that an organism can endure before injury or death results

Species and individual organisms both have a range of tolerance for all the different environmental conditions of their habitat

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Optimal range

range where organisms survive, grow, and reproduce

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Zone of physiological stress

range where organisms survive, but experience some stress such as infertility, lack of growth, decreased activity, etc

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Zone of intolerance

range where the organism will die

Ex: thermal shock, suffocation, lack of food/water/oxygen