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Chapter 3 discusses how limiting factors and ranges of tolerance influence the existence of terrestrial biomes and aquatic ecosystems. It covers community ecology, defining biological communities and the impact of abiotic and biotic limiting factors on species distribution. Additionally, it explains ecological succession, detailing the processes of primary and secondary succession.

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Classroom Presentation Toolkit Community Ecology

Chapter 3 discusses how limiting factors and ranges of tolerance influence the existence of terrestrial biomes and aquatic ecosystems. It covers community ecology, defining biological communities and the impact of abiotic and biotic limiting factors on species distribution. Additionally, it explains ecological succession, detailing the processes of primary and secondary succession.

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Chapter 3 Communities, Biomes, and Ecosystems (pg.

58)

BIG IDEA: Limiting factors and ranges of tolerance are factors that determine
where terrestrial biomes and aquatic ecosystems exist.

Section 1: Community Ecology

All living organisms are limited by factors in the


environment.
Essential Questions
• How do unfavorable abiotic and biotic factors affect species?
• How do ranges of tolerance affect the distribution of organisms?
• What are the stages of primary and secondary succession?

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Vocabulary
Review New
• abiotic factor • community
• limiting factor
• tolerance
• ecological succession
• primary succession
• climax community
• secondary succession

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Communities
• A biological community is a group of interacting populations that
occupy the same area at the same time.

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Communities
Limiting Factors
• Any abiotic or biotic factor that restricts the numbers, reproduction,
or redistribution of organisms is called a limiting factor.
– Abiotic limiting factors includes sunlight, climate, temperature,
water, nutrients, fire, soil chemistry, and space
– Biotic limiting factors include other plant and animal species

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Communities
Range of Tolerance
• For any environmental condition, there is an upper limit and lower
limit an organism can survive.
• The ability of any organism to survive when subjected to abiotic or
biotic factors is called tolerance.

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Ecological Succession
• The change in an ecosystem that happens when one community
replaces another as a result of changing abiotic and biotic factors is
ecological succession.
• There are two types of ecological succession – primary succession
and secondary succession.

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Ecological Succession
Primary succession
• The establishment of a community in an area of exposed rock that
does not have any topsoil is primary succession.
• The stable, mature community that results when there is little
change in species composition is a climax community.

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Ecological Succession
Secondary succession
• The orderly and predictable change that takes place after a
community of organisms has been removed but the soil has
remained intact is secondary succession.

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Ecological Succession
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Review
Essential Questions
• How do unfavorable abiotic and biotic factors affect species?
• How do ranges of tolerance affect the distribution of organisms?
• What are the stages of primary and secondary succession?

Vocabulary
• community • ecological • climax community
• limiting factor succession • secondary
• tolerance • primary succession succession

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