Ecology

[super_nerd]

Hey thats better than we have ever done in Ecology. The best that we have ever gotten is 4th.

[chia]

Hey thats better than we have ever done in Ecology. The best that we have ever gotten is 4th.

well, at what level? this is only regionals i'm talking about.

[Liv]

The only cycles that you actually have to know are water, carbon, nigtragon, and chemical reaction to plants

[cypressfalls Robert]

k, thanks

[gneissisnice]

Back to the bison thing, the American buffalo = bison. Normal buffalo= african cow.
ANd i couldn't resist adding this sentence; Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Look it up if you can't make sense out of that.

And I finally get to do ecology! Because of conflicts. I feel kinda bad, cause the person that has to drop it loves the event and got 1st at states, but she has WIDI.

[countryblondie31]

by the way does anyone know what an indicator species is and what are one for the 4 types of American Deserts?

[Cpeterson]

Lindenmayer et al (2000)[3] suggest 7 alternative definitions of indicator species:

a species whose presence indicates the presence of a set of other species and whose absence indicates the lack of that entire set of species;
a keystone species, which is a species whose addition to or loss from an ecosystem leads to major changes in abundance or occurrence of at least one other species
a species whose presence indicates human-created abiotic conditions such as air or water pollution (often called a pollution indicator species
a dominant species that provides much of the biomass or number of individuals in an area
a species that indicates particular environmental conditions such as certain soil or rock types
a species thought to be sensitive to and therefore to serve as an early warning indicator of environmental changes such as global warming or modified fire regimes (sometimes called a bioindicator species)
a management indicator species, which is a species that reflects the effects of a disturbance regime or the efficacy of efforts to mitigate disturbance effects.

The Chitymomma is an Agave that regionally helps define the Chihuahuan Desert


All of that was from Wikipedia. Hope it helps!

[chia]

Back to the bison thing, the American buffalo = bison. Normal buffalo= african cow.
ANd i couldn't resist adding this sentence; Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Look it up if you can't make sense out of that.

OMG my dad LOVES to say that. it cracks me up
so buffalo is
1) a city
2) an animal
3) a verb (but i forget what it means)

[gneissisnice]

Hehe. Buffalo as a verb means to annoy, or bother. Ive never seen it used outside of that sentence though.

[chia]

Ive never seen it used outside of that sentence though.

neither have i. it's nice to know such things, though