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Ecology

text pages 62-137

Topics covered

  • interactions and interdependence
  • levels of organization
    • populations
    • communities
    • ecosystems
  • energy flow
    • producers, consumers
    • feeding relationships
    • food chain, food web
    • trophic levels, ecological pyramids
  • biogeochemical cycles
    • water cycle
    • carbon dioxide cycle
    • nitrogen cycle
    • limiting nutrients
      • algal blooms
  • niche
    • competition
    • symbiosis
  • population biology
    • population size
      • birth rate, death rate, emigration, immigration
      • exponential growth
      • logistic growth
      • carrying capacity
    • density dependent and density independent limiting factors
  • climate
  • ecological succession
  • biomes

Activities

squirrel carrying capacity (arcytech population model)

world climate

climate activity

biomes