Ecology

EVERGLADES

Abiotic & Biotic Factors: Abiotic: pond, lake, ocean, desert, mountain Biotic: Plants, animals, fungi, protist and bacteria
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Temperature & Precipitation
Location:
Everglades City, FL
•Temperature

•On average, the everglades range up to 90°.
•Precipitation:
Highest amount of rainfall was 9.06 inches. The average amount of rainfall is 5 inches

Plant Life & Animal Life
•Plant life

•Animal life •Has more than 100 marsh species that live in water all or much of the year.
•Its most well-known wetland plant is saw grass
•Animals in the Everglades include raccoon, skunk, opossum, bobcat, and white-tail deer
•Birds are a special symbol of the Everglades

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Organisms and Their Niches
Animals/plants
Consumer Type
Niche
Raccoon
Omnivore
To eat plants and smaller animals
Otters
Omnivore
To be food for larger animals
Opossum
Detrivore
Eat dead animals
Bobcat
Carnivore
Eats smaller animals
White-Tail Deer
Herbivore
Be food for larger animals
Florida Panther
Carnivore
Eat anything that tries to take over its territory.
American Alligator
Carnivore
Eat anything that comes near it
Cypress Tree
Producers
Provide nutrients
Gumbo Limbo
Producers
Provide nutrients
Royal Palm
Producers
Provide nutrients

Population
Effect on Population: •How might population change impact carrying capacity?
•Climate
•Resources
•Abiotic and biotic factors
•If a population increases, their supplies will decrease and if population decreases, then supplies will increase

Symbiosis
Mutualism
Parasitism
Commensalism
Alligators will burrow and create large holes that utilize the available groundwater
The strangler fig needs a host tree and will drain the nutrients out of its host, eventually killing it
The oyster gets protection from the mangroves branches, but the mangrove gets nothing in return.

Trophic Levels
Cypress trees
Gumbo Limbo
Royal Palm

Raccoon

Opossum
Otter

Bobcat
Florida panther
White tail deer

American alligator
100%
Producers
10%
Primary consumers
1%
Secondary
Consumers
0.1%
Third- level consumers

Energy Flow

Food Web

Ecological and Conservation Concerns
•Ecological
• The water it is receiving is inadequate with quality, quantity and distribution. Another issue is that there has been a decline of bird population by 90 percent. The park is having trouble satisfying the peoples needs and also keeping the park non polluted and still alive. •Conservation
•Recently, the U.S army corps of engineers in partnership with the south Florida water management district and numerous other federal, state, local and tribal partners has developed a plan to save the Everglades called the comprehensive everglades restoration plan
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Work Cited http://fcelter.fiu.edu/about_us/everglades/restoration/ http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-raccoons http://www.nps.gov/search/index.htm?page=1&query=abiotic+and+biotic+factors+gsmnp http://www.weather.com/weather/wxclimatology/monthly/graph/USFL0138 http://www.evergladesplan.org/facts_info/sywtkma_animals.aspx http://www.whateats.com/?s=alligator http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-otter http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-opossum http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-bobcat http://www.whateats.com/what-eats-deer http://neudelscience.net/i-power/Everglades_Symbiotic_Roles..html http://www.everglades.national-park.com/info.htm http://www.nps.gov/ever/parknews/currentissues.htm