BIOL 2060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Drug Tolerance, Transpiration
14 Sep 2017
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Physiological ecology: is the study of physiology in context of the resources and environments that are available on our planet. Uniqueness between species comes from each species adaptations to their environment. Factors that effect species distribution: weather on land or under water, amount of sunlight, availability of different nutrients, the ph, other species living in the same area, temperature and moisture. Locations that are close together on a graph of precipitation vs. temperature are not necessarily close geographically, but have similar vegetation. The average temperature and precipitation of a particular location controls what type of vegetation may grow there. High temperature and low precipitation are desserts, which have high biodiversity but. High precipitation and moderate/high temperatures are rain forests, which have high biomass and diversity. For every 10 degrees c increase in average temperature, there must be an increase of. Physiological tolerance: the limits on environmental conditions that an organism can tolerate (outside these conditions, organisms stop functioning properly)
