(par 3. 9.2) Climax community
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia is an example of a climax forest ecosystem. In ecology, climax community, or climatic climax community, is a historic term that expressed a biological community of plants and animals and fungi which, through the process of ecological succession the development of vegetation in an area over time, had reached a steady state. This equilibrium was thought to occur because the climax […]
(par 3. 9.1) Origens of ‘ecosystem’ & related terms
http://www.barrameda.com.ar/ecology/the-ecosystem.htm Towards 1950 the ecologists elaborated the scientific notion of ecosystem, defining it as the unit of study of ecology. In agreement with such definition, the ecosystem is a delimited space unit, integrated on the one hand, by the alive organisms and the environment in which these are developed, and by another one, the interactions […]
(par 3. 9 ) Successional Changes in Communities
http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/successional-changes-in-communities-13261649 By: Jamie M. Kneitel (Department of Biological Sciences, California State University) © 2010 Nature Education Citation: Kneitel, J. (2010) Successional Changes in Communities. Nature Education Knowledge 3(10):41 In the field of ecology, community composition changes over time. The study of succession addresses this change, which can be influenced by the environment, biotic interactions, and dispersal. Over the course of several years, you can return to […]