biogeography
dispersal: cattle egret late 1800's;
behavior: corn borer female attracted to corn;
biotic: sea urchins remove seaweeds, mot limpets;
ecology
2 is a deer mouse.
urchin
Limpet=snail.
sunlight
Glen Ellyn latitude=41.9, -88.1.
wind
TENNIS BALL Coriolis; 30
°=horse latitudes.
mountain
Groves on east bank; Moraines
aquatic-pelagic
BBC-BluePlanet/1.1_OceanWorld/#16:30
Cape Gannets dive on sardines (start 12:20); also
ch53/territory.html
aquatic-benthic
Hygrogen sulfide formed by reaction of hot water with dissolved sulfate (SO
42-).
terrestrial-chaparral
matorral in Spain, Chile; garigue and maquis in France; fymbos in South Africa.
terrestrial-grassland
the
veldts of South Africa,
the
puszta of Hungary,
the
pampas of Argentina and Uruguay,
the
steppes of Russia, and the plains
and
prairies of central North America
terrestrial-coniferous
The reduced diversity in plant species makes these forests vulnerable to periodic insect outbreaks.
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Aquatic Biomes
SQ: 8=D? 10=D?
AQ: 8=C?
CQ:
- Earless seals. Eared sea lions longer flippers, can rotate hind flippers forward, handstand, vocal
- "Northern fur seal" (also eared, but not a sea lion): reduced by hunting, recovered.
- Cheetah rine spraying: females spray less actively than males except in heat
Both urine and feces of estrous female attract males.
- Environmental influences on population
- Exponential growth: ir (intrinsic rate) = birth rate - death rate
- Hectares: 10,000 m2, 2.471 acres; COD 273 acres
- E.O. Wilson