ECOLOGY

By:

MARIA KRISIA
FAE DELOS
REYES DE ASIS,
BSN-RN
ECOLOGY
- Derived from the Greek word
oikos meaning house or place
to live introduced by Ernst
Heinrich Haeckel
- Science of interrelations
between living organisms and
their environment
ECOLOGY
- environmental biology
- Study of the relation of
organisms or groups of organisms
to their PHYSICAL and BIOLOGIGAL
environment
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
- includes light and heat or
solar radiation, moisture, wind,
oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients
in soil, water, and atmosphere
ECOLOGY
BIOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENT
- Organisms of the same kind and
other plants and animals
IDENTIFY:
A group of any one kind of organism?
Answer:
POPULATION
IDENTIFY:
Includes all of the populations
occupying a given area?
Answer:
COMMUNITY
IDENTIFY:
Includes all of the earths living
organisms interacting together with
the physical environment as a whole?
Answer:
ECOSPHERE / BIOSPHERE
IDENTIFY:
It is the capacity to do work or bring
about change?
Answer:
ENERGY
IDENTIFY:
A community consisting of plants,
animals, and microorganisms that
interact with one another and with
their environment?
Answer:
ECOSYSTEM
COMPONENTS
+ BIOTIC or LIVING COMPONENTS:
> Producers can make their own
food
> Consumers eat other organisms
for food
> Decomposers obtain
nourishment from dead matter
+ ABIOTIC or NON-LIVING COMPONENTS
provide nutrients for the
ecosystem to function
COMPONENTS
Also remember:
> Ecosystems are systems in which
there is a regulated transfer of
ENERGY and a controlled cycling of
nutrients.
HEAT
ECOSYSTEM
SUN
PRODUCERS
ABIOTIC
NUTRIENTS
CONSUMERS
DECOMPOSERS
ENERGY &
NUTRIENTS
HEAT
HEAT
HEAT
PRIMARY CONSUMERS
-Herbivores
-Feed directly on green plants
TYPES OF CONSUMERS
SECONDARY CONSUMERS
-Carnivores
-Feed on the herbivores
+ detritus
= waste material of an ecosystem
TROPHIC LEVELS
= from Greek word trophos meaning
feeder
+ Autotroph self-feeder
+ Heterotroph other-feeder
o Herbivores consumers of green
plants
o Carnivores consumers of herbivores
o Omnivores consumers of both plants
and animals
TROPHIC LEVELS
o FIRST TROPHIC LEVEL
green plants
o SECOND TROPHIC LEVEL
herbivores, omnivores
o THIRD TROPHIC LEVEL
carnivores, onmivores
o FOURTH TROPHIC LEVEL
secondary carnivores
FOOD CHAIN
A series of organisms made up of
the different trophic levels that
creates a continuous transfer of
energy
FOOD WEB
A set of interconnected food
chains by which energy and
materials circulate within an
ecosystem
POPULATIONS AND
COMMUNITIES
+ DOMINANCE
- results when one or several
species control the environmental
conditions that influence
associated species
+ DIVERSITY
- Involves the number of species
in a community and how these
numbers are apportioned
POPULATIONS AND
COMMUNITIES
+ STRATIFICATION
-layering than occurs in a
community
- Ex. Grassland: ground layer and
herbaceous layer
- Ex. Forest: ground, herbaceous,
low shrub, low tree and high
shrub, lower canopy, and upper
canopy
POPULATIONS AND
COMMUNITIES
+ HABITAT
- the place where particular
plants or animals live
+ NICHE
- the functional role of a
species in a community
POPULATIONS AND
COMMUNITIES
+ BIRTH RATE
- the number of young produced
per unit of population per unit
of time
+ DEATH RATE
- the number of deaths per unit
of time
POPULATIONS AND
COMMUNITIES
+ GROWTH RATE
- Influenced by births and deaths
o When births exceeds deaths
= POPULATION INCREASES
= (+) POPULATION GROWTH RATE
o When deaths exceeds births
= POPULATION DECREASES
= (-) POPULATION GROWTH RATE
POPULATIONS AND
COMMUNITIES
o When births equals deaths
= POPULATION REMAINS THE SAME
= ZERO POPULATION GROWTH RATE
+ EXPONENTIAL GROWTH
- Occurs when a small population
is introduced into a favorable
environment with abundant
resources (OPPORTUNISTIC SPECIES)
COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
= various population interactions
that tie the community together
= have major influence in
population growth
= SYMBIOSIS
1. COMPETITION
- When a shared resource is in
short supply, organisms compete,
and those that are more
successful survive
COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
2. PREDATION
- the consumption of one living
organism, plant or animal, by
another
3. PARASITISM
- two organisms live together,
one drawing its nourishment at
the expense of the other
COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
4. COEVOLUTION
- the joint evolution of two
unrelated species that have a
close ecological relationship
- the evolution of one species
depends in part on the evolution
of the other
- a.k.a.
Adaptation
or Mimicry
COMMUNITY INTERACTIONS
5. MUTUALISM
- Coexistence that results in
mutual benefits to the
interdependent organisms
6. COMMENSALISM
- an association between two
different kinds of nonparasitic
animals that is harmless to both
and in which one of the organism
benefits
PLEASE PREPARE FOR A
SHORT QUIZ
question:
Capacity to do work?
question:
What is the Greek word
meaning house or
place to live?
question:
What are the two
components of the
ecosystem? Enumerate.
question:
What are consumers of
both plants and
animals?
question:
What are the 6 types of
community interactions?
question:
What is the functional
role of a species in a
community?
question:
A series of organisms
made up of the
different trophic
levels that creates a
continuous transfer of
energy?
question:
Give an example of a
food chain with four
trophic levels. (5pts.)