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* Population And Community ecology
ECOLOGY is the study of the interactions of organisms with their physical and biological environment




D% Population ecology is concerned with fluctuations in the size of a
population and factors both
,
physical and social that


regulates these functions




☐¥ Community individuals live together in
populations different populations together
,
make community ,
including non-living things
in their
surroundings Ecosystem all the ecosystems on earth make up biosphere



D Biosphere is the part of the earth where
living organisms are found .




An ecosystem
De is made up of groups of different species of organisms that interact with each other and with environment




An
☐ Organisms is an individual form of life , such as a bacterium , protest , plants or animals composed of a
single cell of complex

of cells
growing and
that capable of
are
reproducing


DA community is a group of different species that inhabit and interact in particular area




A species is of closely related organisms that similar to each other and usually capable of interbreed
group
a are are
☐ very

and producing fertile offspring



D¥ An individual is a
single cell organism capable of independent existence




D¥ A population is a
group of organisms of same species that occupy the same area can breed freely with each other




D¥ Demographics of populations such as statistics ,
size , growth ,
rate . - .




What Affects the size of a Population
↳ Population size is the total number of individuals Cps parameters

Def
:
Natality -

birth Rate or production seeds

NOTE :




Def
:


Mortality -


death date
is the number of

Birth rate

people in year
births per 1000


Def Immigration
:
-
individuals move into a population and stay
• Death rate is the number of



Def
:
people per Year
Emigration -

individuals leave a population Do not return birth per iooo




closedpopulation.withnoimmigrationoremi~gygratioftheonlyparame.fr
s affecting any change in population number birth

, HOW IS The Growth of a Population Regulated
↳ New
Population moves into an area there lot's food , resources and no predators number of individuals will increase


Number individuals increase builds up
Environmentalre-sistan.ee Took total number of factors
-




more demands on resources made ,


that stop a population
eventually population stabilizes


balance reached and at a causes birth rate /immigration rate
from
decrease and death rate 1 emigration
reproducing
at it 's Max rate
number that is
carrying capacity of ecosystem increase .




De Carrying Capacity the population density that environment can support



Af Population fluctuates as it fluctuates seasonally and annually depending on resources a vial able

to Population size in an
ecosystem is self -



regulating All Negative -

feedback mechanisms




tgiwmriittiinngy Factor
D The factors that help to regulate the



growth of a
population known as limiting factors




Density Independent factors

limits growth of a
population result natural factors and not because density or number of organisms




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Physical factions eg . rainfall , temp , humidity . . . ect


-

Catastrophic events
eg
floods fire ,
, drought, earthquakes
""" " ""° "


Density Dependant factors Build up
W Greater effect the
population density high organisms crowed ed they

Environmental
is ,
:




Compete ( food )
-


more resources , water , space . . .




-

More easily found predators
Resistance
-




Spread disease -
and
parasites more readily I




* stable and Unstable Populations
NOTE :


↳ Numbers
decrease its size exceeds the earring Capacity SA there is a
population

Deteriorating rapidly , lowing carrying capacity census every 5 years to

(aint support population decrease determine how many
, rapidly become extinct


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country

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1. Direct Method
2 . Mark recapture Method -
( indirect Method)


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* Area To

photographs
large :




whole




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area to see populations

helicopters count larger
Count "
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for populations organisms large enough to be seen -
Humans , census forms can



Area animals be filled in
large
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are , are not to





Organisms slow
moving , stationary or fixed in a Position

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