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- Subject: Biology
- AS: AS90461
- Level: 2
- Credits: 3
- External
Biology 2.5 Describe the concepts and processes relating to ecology
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Make sure you have up-to-date course notes. Use them, and if you haven't got them, see your teacher.
The biological concepts and processes relating to ecology will be selected from:
- food webs, trophic levels, nutrient cycles, flow of energy
- biodiversity, adaptations
- succession, zonation, stratification, distribution
- competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, age structure, density, habitat preference, antibiosis
- applications, techniques, and management practices used in ecology.
Applications, techniques and management practices used in ecology are used to do such things as manage, control, or enhance populations and communities. Examples include:
- pest management
- marine reserves
- zoo breeding programmes
- selective logging.
Revise the main principles and ecological concepts.
Check out this Freshwater Ecology Tutorial for application of some of the concepts and processes mentioned above.
Population Ecology provides many of the fundamental ecological terms for NCEA level 2.
