Habitats in Paradise

The kind of habitat determines what sort of organisms would live and flourish in it. Some distant secluded islands may show varieties of organisms that are not found elsewhere and are quite different from what we are used to see. Organisms living and flourishing in a particular habitat tend to be well adapted to such habitat and live in harmony with it.

Now let's imagine what sort of 'habitat' or different habitats would be present in paradise? For sure it would be quite different from the ones we have here on earth. Consequently, the types of organisms living there would be equally wondrous.

Organisms: Introduction

Digest

Approach

• Constructive approach: Building up from organisms to populations to communities.
• Analytically approach: Deconstructing from communities into populations and furthermore into organisms.
• This book follows a constrictive rather than analytically approach in this regard.

Constructive approach

Chatpers

1. Chapter 1: Constraints of evolutionary history of organisms
2. Chapter 2: Variation of environmental conditions with respect to place and time and their effect (limit) on the distribution of particular species.
3. Chapter 3: Resources consumed by different types of organisms.
4. Chapter 4: Variety in the schedules of birth and death (life histories)
5. Chapter 5: Intraspecific competition for shared resources in short supply (interaction within single species populations)
6. Chapter 6: Immigration and emigration
7. Chapter 7: Applications: restoration, biosecurity, species conservation

Questions

1. What role does the abundance of a specific species play in shaping a community?
2. What will the chapters in Part I (Organisms) be covering?