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Ecology - Coggle Diagram

- - - - All organisms that can reproduce with each other fall under the same species.
  - - - Conservationists attempt to preserve biodiversity and protect endangered species and their habitats.
- - - - LIMITING FACTORS limit populations. They can be biotic or abiotic
        
        An important biotic limiting factor is the relationship between predator and prey.
- - - - The fundamental concept of ecology is that all living organisms are interdependent - (of two or more people or things) dependent on each other - and they interact with one another and with the physical environment.
- - - - For this reason, food chains are actually quite short.
- - - - Niches can be determined on how an organism obtains their food.
        
        AUTOTROPHS or PRODUCERS make their own food out of non-organic substances: for example, sunlight or carbon dioxide.
        
        Food chains begin with autotrophs.
        
        HETEROTROPHS or CONSUMERS must consume other organisms for energy.
        
        Herbivores consume plant tissues.
        
        Carnivores consume other animals.
        
        Omnivores eat both plants and animals.
        
        Decomposers eat the wastes and dead bodies of other organisms; they recycle materials that can be reused by producers.
        
        The process of breaking down dead organisms as well as wastes and returning those materials to the ecosystem is DECOMPOSITION.