Ecology

Energy Flow Process in the Ecosystem.

Ecology

Environments keep up themselves by cycling energy and nutrients got from outer sources. At the main trophic level, essential makers (plants, green growth, and a few microorganisms) utilize sun energy to produce organic plant material through ...

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Genetic Diversity in the context of future Survival for Human.

Ecology

Genetic Diversity of future Survival for Human: Human being developed on earth around four million years back. Steadily, going through the arrangement of advancement resembles improvement of limb, upright posture, development of brain, and so ...

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Define Wildlife? Discuss the major threats to Wildlife.

Ecology

Wildlife include living things that are neither human nor domesticated. The peculiar characteristic of the wildlife is that it is well adapted to the soil, light and temperature conditions of an area and not dependent on humans for their existence. ...

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Explain the distribution of Age-Sex.

Ecology

Age-Sex Distribution: In a population the individuals vary in age and functional aspects are highly dependent on age e.g. women can bear children only up to a certain age or that older people have higher mortality rates as compared to younger ...

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Define Natality and Mortality.

Ecology

Natality: It is equivalent to the birth rate by means of birth, germination, hatching etc. It is the capacity of a population to increase itself. Under the ideal conditions there is a maximum production of individuals called maximum natality, ...

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Describe the synthetic characters of plant community.

Ecology

The synthetic characters of plant community are: Presence and Constancy: Presence and constancy describes about the distribution of species in a given area. Normally the species which occur 80-90% are referred to, as constant species. Fidelity: It ...

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Describe the Qualitative & Quantitative characters of plant community.

Ecology

The community characters can be classified as analytical and synthetic. The analytical characters are both qualitative and quantitative in nature. The important qualitative characters of any plant community are: Floristic Composition: It ...

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Describe any five salient features of a Marine Ecosystem.

Ecology

The marine ecosystem is very different from fresh water ecosystem. It covers almost seventy percent of the earth's surface. The silent features of marine ecosystem are: Salinity: The.salinity of sea is fairly constant with sodium chloride being ...

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Describe the various stages of Hydrarch succession.

Ecology

When the succession takes place in a moist area progressing from hydric to mesic conditions, then it is called Hydrarch. It is further of two types: Hydrosere: When the succession is in fresh water ecosystem like ponds, lakes, etc.Halosere: ...

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Describe the different between natural and artificial environment with appropriate examples.

Ecology

The natural environment encompasses all living and non-living things occurring naturally on earth or some region thereof. It is an environment that encompasses the interaction of all living species along with biotic and abiotic components. A pond is ...

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Describe the Three Models of Succession.

Ecology

It is believed that different mechanisms function at different stage during primary succession and for different type of secondary succession. The few suggested models are the facilitation model, which is based on a thought that species of previous ...

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Describe the various steps involved in the process of succession.

Ecology

In all the successions, the fundamental process involves the same procedures. The first step is "nudation". The need of appropriate kind of habitat is the basic requirement for any community to grow and sustain. The bare area is required for any ...

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