Factors Affecting Different Types of Habitat
2a. What abiotic factors might account for any differences between different types of habitats, such as disturbed and less disturbed hillsides? Explain.
Abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect ecosystems. These include temperature, light (sun exposure), soil composition, rocks, water, air pollution, humidity, radiation, and wind that can influence a species’ ability to survive. In each case the impact on the ecosystem will depend on the intensity, time, history, frequency, and size of the disturbance. Every species is able to survive within a range of each of these factors, but change in these factors will reduce their health, their rate of growth and reproduction. The largest and healthiest populations of species will occur when conditions are within the optimal range. for example, water is an important source of life for all plants. In disturbed area water may be less, so plants may not grow as much as hillside with more water. Also, strong winds can pull out some of trees in a specific habitat, and that will make the habitat more disturbed, but on the other hand, the habitat that did not expose to much winds will be considered as less disturbed.
2b.What biotic factors might account for any differences between different types of habitats, such as disturbed and less disturbed hillsides? Explain.
Abiotic factors are factors resulting from the activities of a living thing or any living component in an environment, such as the actions of an organism affecting the life of another organism. These factors include humans, animals (cows), insects, plants shading other plants, grazing. For example, grazing has been a common and, in some cases, intense disturbance in many plant communities. When animals graze on plants, they will damage perennial grasses and forbs through removal of aboveground plants. This will reduce these forbs and grass of the area where animals such as cows graze more disturbed than the area where
Abiotic factors are non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment that affect ecosystems. These include temperature, light (sun exposure), soil composition, rocks, water, air pollution, humidity, radiation, and wind that can influence a species’ ability to survive. In each case the impact on the ecosystem will depend on the intensity, time, history, frequency, and size of the disturbance. Every species is able to survive within a range of each of these factors, but change in these factors will reduce their health, their rate of growth and reproduction. The largest and healthiest populations of species will occur when conditions are within the optimal range. for example, water is an important source of life for all plants. In disturbed area water may be less, so plants may not grow as much as hillside with more water. Also, strong winds can pull out some of trees in a specific habitat, and that will make the habitat more disturbed, but on the other hand, the habitat that did not expose to much winds will be considered as less disturbed.
2b.What biotic factors might account for any differences between different types of habitats, such as disturbed and less disturbed hillsides? Explain.
Abiotic factors are factors resulting from the activities of a living thing or any living component in an environment, such as the actions of an organism affecting the life of another organism. These factors include humans, animals (cows), insects, plants shading other plants, grazing. For example, grazing has been a common and, in some cases, intense disturbance in many plant communities. When animals graze on plants, they will damage perennial grasses and forbs through removal of aboveground plants. This will reduce these forbs and grass of the area where animals such as cows graze more disturbed than the area where