Competition Between Species

The Joshua tree’s life cycle begins with the rare germination of a seed, its survival dependent upon well-timed rains. Look for sprouts growing up from within the protective branches of a shrub. Young sprouts may grow quickly in the first five years, then slow down considerably thereafter. The tallest Joshua tree in the park looms a whopping forty feet high, a grand presence in the Queen Valley forest. Judging the age of a Joshua tree is challenging: these “trees” do not have growth rings like you would find in an oak or pine.

Did you know that a hive of bees, must travel 55,000 miles and visit 2 million flowers just to produce 1 pound of honey? Anyway, back to bees surviving in winter. Studies have found that some honeybee hives will consume up to 30 pounds of honey over a whole winter. To not litter their hive, the bees, on warmer days, go outside of their hive to excrete

Average Temperatures: 80 degrees the whole year. Location: Near the cold ridges of the Earth’s Equator. Domian 11. Biome Vocabulary: Canopy, Epiphytes, Dominant Plants and their Adaptations: The plants need to release water in order to avoid the growth of fungi and bacteria. The forest tree leaves must adapt to the amount of rainfall they receive a year.

As light intensity is increased further, however, the rate of photosynthesis is eventually limited by some other factor. (Benckiser, 2013) So the rate reaches a maximum. At very high light intensity, chlorophyll may be damaged and the rate drops steeply. This source is reliable as it is a document that focuses on the limiting factors that affect photosynthesis and pertains to this experiment because according to the graph provided, a plant photosynthesises at different rates at different times of the day. According to a school-curriculum based website which supports this source (IGCSE, 2014), a plant is unable to harvest light at high intensities and the chlorophyll system can be damaged by very intense light levels.

The struggle for existence is a widely known concept, and a term famously used by Charles Darwin in his writings. The struggle for existence refers to the many organisms on Earth and their constant competition with each other. One of the many ways life struggles with each other is overpopulation. Overpopulation is when one species grows rapidly or more than normal, over some short amount of time. In one of Darwin’s writings, we have to “... give it some advantage over a different set of competitors or enemies.” This means that in order for a species to be overpopulated it has to be favored or have an advantage over its competitors in some way.

Not being able to move fast is also a disadvantage when it comes to gathering food as the distance that can be travelled in the same amount of time is lessened. Bipedalism is also inefficient compared to moving around on four legs (Rodman & McHenry, 1980). However hominids should not be compared with true quadrupeds as they will always seem inefficient but rather should be compared to quadrupedal hominoids as it is accepted that we evolved from these (Rodman & McHenry, 1980). Even with all of the disadvantages that bipedalism brings our ancestors still spent millions of years adapting to walking on two legs meaning that enough of an advantage had to have been gained from

Parasites require resources gained from their hosts to stay alive and grow. Mistletoe is a type of parasite that establishes itself on trees and taps into the Xylem and Phloem of the tree to suck at its water and nutrients. In this study we examined the effect moister has on the abundance of the Mistletoe Phoradendron macrophyllum in the area of Wet Beaver Creek, Arizona. We took measurement of health tree diameter and species of 100 trees, 50 from a dry site and 50 from a site located along a perennial river, and counted the amount of mistletoe on each tree. Our results showed a significant difference between the amounts of mistletoe between the two sites.

A disadvantage of artificial selection is stated on, “Lee County Students”, saying that “However, genetic modification is highly controversial.” This is a disadvantage because artificial selection is not fully proven to work, and there are not many studies that show it works easily. Another disadvantage of artificial selection is an unexpected result. There are many different outcomes of artificial selection and can be a surprise to the organism and owner, stated on “Pros and Cons of Artificial Selection”. A final disadvantage of artificial selection is shortened life. The offspring of an organism can have a lower than average lifespan due to artificial selection, said on “Pros and Cons of Artificial

This will minimize any stress the tree may experience from loss of foliage. Reduce all branches greater than 1/2 the diameter of the trunk. Select one stem to be the leader, and reduce or remove all branches competing with it. Reduce and/or remove large, vigorous branches low in the canopy, and remove any broken, cracked, or severely damaged branches. The pruning cycle and dose for these first 5 years should be determined individually for each tree type and size—for example, a pruning visit could be scheduled for year two and year four, or only one visit may be necessary during this

Enabled through the manufactured propaganda, fabricated crimes or whatever information justified their demise. Maybe they 're savages, barbarians, dangerous, stupid, weak, a different color, race or culture. It is hard to wage a war on respectable people, when it is just for control, power and resource theft, it would not look moral