Ecology Vocabulary by Elijah Williams

Niche

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The specific role of an organism in a community. Many plants niche is to provide energy for the herbnivoes and omnivores by being a source of food

Producer

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A producer is a plant or alge that can produce its own food from the sun. Majority of plants are producers and they are one of the most important parts of the ecosystem

Consumer

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Consumers are organisms that eat producers as a source of energy. Tigers are very proficient consumers with them hunting many different animals for food

Community

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A group of two or more species within one geographical area. The rainforest hosts a large community of animals.

Population

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A group of organisms living in the same area. There is a large population of animals in the Amazon Rainforest

Ecosystem

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a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. This ecosystem hosts a wide variety of plants and animals despite its harsh physical enviornment

Symbiosis

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A type of close and long biology interaction between two biological organisms of different species. Venom shares a symiotic relationship with his host in both the movies and the comics.

Carrying Capacity

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A species average population size in a particular habitat. This species has a large carring capacity in this enviornment as there is an abundance of the animals it eats

Logistic growth curve

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Population expansion decreases as resources become scarce, levling off when the carrying capacity of the enviornment is reached, resulting in an S shaped curve. The logistic growth curve prodominantly comes in an S shape but can also come in many other shapes depending on how things are going.

Exponential growth curve

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when a population's per capita growth rate stays the same, regardless of population size, making the population grow faster and faster as it gets larger. The exponential growth curve is something every population can face given the right conditions

autotroph

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An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals. Plants are a major example of autotrophs.

Heterotroph

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an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients. While some may think that humans are heterotrophs we actually are not as we eat many plants and fruits aswell, making us fit into another catagory.

limiting factor

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Anything that constrains a populations size and slows or stops it from growing. Limiting factors are very common and happens to every species as they will not be growing forever meaning they must have a limiting factor.

climax community

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an ecological community in which populations of plants or animals remain stable and exist in balance with each other and their environment. A climax community is the final stage of succession

Estuary

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A partially enclosed, coastal water body where freshwater from rivers and streams mixes with salt water form the ocean. Estuaries are often where poeple end up trying to live as freshwater is always helpful to have in an enviornment.

greenhouse effect

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A process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the suns heat. The greenhouse effect might contribute to global warming.

Density dependent

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A factor whose effects on the size or growth of a population vary with the population density. Density dependent factors typically involve biotic factors.

Density independent

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Any force that affects the size of a population of living things regardless of the density of the population. Fires, weather and volcanoes are all examples of density independence

pioneer species

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Species that are the first to colonize newly created environments or recently disturbed environments during the process of primary succession and secondary succession respectively. In short, pioneer species are species that start the enviornment

decomposer

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An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem. Decomposers are essential to an ecosystem as without them there would be dead bodies laying everywhere