ECOLOGY

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Good day my follow steemians today i will love to write on the topic ecology,but first of all what is ecology.

Ecology is the study of the relationship between organism and their environment.

TYPES OF ECOLOGY

  • Autecology: is the study of and individual organism. Example rat and its environment.
  • Synecology: is the study of the inter-relationship between group of organism living together in an area.

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CONCEPTS OF ECOLOGY

  • Environment: is the surrounding of an organism it consists of two parts; abiotic and biotic.

  • Abiotic: abiotic is non-living components e.g soil,water atmosphere and temperature etc.

  • Biotic: biotic is living component e.g plants, animals.

  • Biosphere: biosphere is the part of earth in which life exist it is made up of atmosphere, hydrosphere,lithosphere.

  • Atmosphere: atmosphere is the part that lies between the earth and outer space. it composes of four main division, troposphere, stratosphere,mesophere and thermosphere.

  • Troposphere: it is the first and lowest layer,closet to the earth.

  • Stratosphere: is is the second layer.

  • Mesophere: it is the third layer of the earth the temperature decreases.

  • Thermosphere: it is the fourth layer the temperature increase.

  • Hydrosphere: is aquatic part of the biosphere.example river,lake and sea.

  • Lithosphere: it is the soild part of the earth were plant and animals live.

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Habitat: it is a place were organism live for example aquatic habitat and terrestial habitat.

  • Aquatic habitat include river,lake and stream etc.
    *Terrestial habitat include forest, farmland,field, dessert, grassland.

Niche: is a special place within the habitat where organism live.

  • Ecological niche: is the sum total of all the roles played by any given organism within a given habitat.
    Population: is the total number of organism in the same spaces which live at a given time in a particular habitat.

Community: is a group of Intercity population in a particular habitat.

Biomes: is a large natural terrestrial ecosystem which has a characteristics appearance.

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