Posted on 01 January 2013. Tags: altissima, canopy trees, ecological niche, ficus altissima, food web, Host, host tree, hundreds of years, Number, Occupied, peruvian jungle, seed, strangler figs, sweet fruits, tropical rain forrest
Matapalo > Ficus altissima
Life cycle:
Germinates as epiphyte from seed dispersed by birds and monkeys.
Seedling sends roots from high in the trees to the ground.
Plant starts to grow very quickly, surrounding and often suffocating host tree.
When host dies, Matopalo survives as an enormous upright pipe, which is able to live for hundreds of years.
Niche:
Matapalos ( strangler figs ) are tall canopy trees ( up to 148 feet in height.) of tropical rain forrest, bearing lots of sweet fruits and are in this way producers of food for lots of birds and animals ( in some forests up to 70% of its animal’s diets depend on figs, ), and these fruit eaters ( herbivores ) are important knots in the food web of Matopalos niche, f.e. in Peruvian jungle.
and the number of fruit-eaters determines the number of predators of fruit-eaters.
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Posted on 14 December 2012. Tags: Biotic, bruno, community population, ecological niche, ecosystem, energy pyramid, food chain, food web, interrelationships, natural resources
I need to write a song about ecology and ecosystem in the tune of Bruno Mars’ Count on Me.
It should also consist terms like Manmade and Natural resources, Biotic and Abiotic, Community, Population, Habitat, Ecological niche, Food Chain, Food Web, Interrelationships and Energy Pyramid.
Anyone who could give me any lyrical ideas or construct a sample lyrics would be rewarded 5 stars.
Thank You again :”>
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Posted on 31 October 2012. Tags: filter feeders, Food, food particles, food web, heterotrophs, immobile, niche, sessile, sponge, Water
They are filter feeders which are sessile (immobile, fixed in one place) when mature. They filter food particles out of the water. I suppose they are near the bottom of the group of heterotrophs in any given food web.
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Posted on 21 September 2012. Tags: air currents, bacteria, biological community, biology, Community, community ecosystem, definition, ecosystem, factor, food chain, food web, level food, mutualism parasitism, niche, Worksheet
Biology worksheet. i have the definition, but now i need 2 examples and 2 nonexamples of each word.
examples would be like, for abiotic factor: air currents, soil and nonexamples: bacteria, plants
~Ecology
~biosphere
~Population
~biological community
~ecosystem
~habitat
~niche
~symbiosis
~commensalism
~mutualism
~parasitism
~autotroph
~heterotroph
~decomposer
~food chain
~tropic level
~food web
~biomass
any help would be greatly appreciated 😀
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Posted on 05 September 2012. Tags: biomass, biotic community, clam, Community, Environmental, environmental sciences, Feeding, fish, food web, insect, oak tree, plants and animals, Symbiosis, trophic level, web
1) The feeding relationships among plants and animals and among various animals in a biotic community is called a:
A) biomass.
B) food web.
C) trophic level.
D) niche.
E) symbiosis
2) Which of the following is NOT a consumer?
A) an oak tree
B) a fish
C) a deer
D) a clam
E) an insect
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Posted on 19 May 2011. Tags: biology questions, Biomes, Commensalism, ecosystem, food web, hydrothermal vent communities, nitrification, oxygen, photosynthetic organisms, Plant, rainfall, species benefits, tropical forests, web, yearly rainfall
(1) ____ is an overbundance of nutrients that leads to excessive plant growth and reduction of oxygen in an ecosystem?
-denitrification
-eutrophication
-nitrification
-phosphorylation
(2)which of these biomes recives the greatest amount of yearly rainfall?
-boreal forest
-grasslands
-temperate forests
-tropical forests
(3) An organism’s position within a food web is know as its?
-ecosystem
-habitat
-niche
-tropic level
(4) Hydrothermal vent communities lack photosynthetic organisms at the base of the food web?
-true
-false
(5) the rigid, outer layer of earth is referred to as the asthenosphere?
-true
-false
(6) in commensalism, one species benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed?
-true
-false
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