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Individuals and populations

los seres vivos Indivíduos e populações
For million years, the Earth has been changing its appearance, for 40,000 years the continent already occupied its present position.
cambric period
CAMBRIC PERIOD
permic period
PERMIC PERIOD

Each alive being - vegetal or animal-, is an individual if it is considered in relation to the species to which belongs.

From the point of view of the ecology, a set of individuals of a species that occupies a place determined at the same time forms a population.

Populations are not stable but they modify themselves according to a series of factors: climatic variations, adaptation to the environment, diseases, epidemics, action of pregivers, food shortage and the movement of the own individuals in the territory in migration processes.

 
eocene period
EOCENE PERIOD
the earth today
Although the process of modification of the continents continues, is at first sight invaluable by slowness whereupon it takes place.

The set of populations of different species that live in a same area receives the community name. For example, the set of populations of ants and beetles of the ecosystem forest constitute a community of insects of itself.

The interaction between the species

Each species has a function and occupies a place in the physical space. The relations between individuals of different species can be of competition, predation, parasitism and cooperation.

Competition relation exists when the individuals must fight in the environment to appropriate themselves a certain resource, that can be the space, the light, the security, the food, etc. The predation relation is that in which an organism captures other to nourish itself of him. The parasitism happens when an organism feeds itself on another one, living on him or in its interior during every or the most part of the life of the other. For example, it is parasitic of the dog, the tick .

 
Main terrestrial biomes
 

In the cooperation the individuals of two species are associate receiving some type of benefit that could not separately be reached.

The biosphere

The biosphere is the part of the Earth where the alive beings are developed.

It covers from 8 or 10 km on the level of the sea to few meters of depth in the ground, where the roots of the plants arrive to absorb minerals. It also includes waters of the oceans from its surface to the deepest regions. In all its extension it measures around 20 km.

The aquatic environment, where the life was originated, are two: the see, abundant in salts, and the one of fresh water, with few salts.

Two characteristics of them are the density of the water, that is an appropriate support for the organisms and simultaneously an obstacle for its movements, and the depth. This last one, related to the amount of light that breaks through from the surface, determines the existence or non-existence of plants.

Remarkable differences appear between the terrestrial environment and the aquatic one. The muscular force to move by the ground, climbing, or walking, must be greater than the one than it is needed in the water. Before it, most of the animals species that occupied the ground had to develop extremities apt for the locomotion. They do not lack, nevertheless, crawl forms, that in general are limited to the surface of the ground and its interior.

The aerial environment are colonized so much by plants as by animals. The vegetables resort to the air for the dissemination of the seeds o, which allows them to extend the area of dispersion of the species. The animals better adapted to that environment have developed two characteristics: light corporal structures and organs adapted for the movement in the heights, generally wings or membranes.

Biomes

All ecological space that shares the same species, climate, animals, and plants is a biome. The surface of the planet is divided in biomes, defined by the characteristics of humidity, temperature and annual precipitations. Every biome has a certain vegetation and its limits is demarcated by diverse factors, among them, the availability or not of water, the greater or smaller amount of light and the amplitude of temperatures.

According to the most habitual subdivision, main biomes is: the jungle, the forest, the savannah, the prairie, the steppe, the tundra, coniferous forest (taiga). and the desert.

The lack of water in the deserts limits the development of vegetation.   desert
The most characteristic specie of the tundra in Europe and Asia is the red deer.   tundra
In the North hemisphere , the biome of transition between the tundra and the steppe is the coniferous forest (taiga)   taiga
The colds and intense heats of the steppe do not favour the development of great variety of species.   steppe
By the great abundance of grass, the prairie is used for pasturings.   prairie
The extension of the savannah lodges great herds of mammals.   savanna
             
In the forest arboreal species, and herbaceous are developed.   forest   The environmental conditions of the jungle allow the life of diverse species.   rainforest
Los comentarios son editados con el fin de preservar la integridad del idioma. Se procede a la correción ortográfica y gramatical respetándose los conceptos volcados.

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