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Students must know...

The role of abiotic factors in the formation of biomes.
How biotic and abiotic factors affect the distribution of biomes.
How changes in these factors may alter ecosystems.
How density, dispersion, and demographics can describe a population.
The differences between exponential and logistic models of population growth.
How density-dependent and density-independent factors can control population growth.
How a change in matter or energy will affect the population or community.
The effect of age distributions and fecundity on human populaitons as presented in age-structure pyramids.
The difference between a fundamental niche and realized niche.
The role of competitve exclusion in interspecific competition.
The symbiotic relationships of parasitism, mutualism, and commensalism.
The impact of keystone species on community structure.
The difference between primary and secondary succession.
How energy flows through the ecosystem in relations to food chains and food webs.
The difference between gross primary productivity and net primary productivity.
The carbon and nitrogen biogeochemical cycles.
How biogeochemical cycles impact individual organisms and/or populations and ecosystems.
The value of biodiversity and the major human threats to it.
How human actions are changing the Earth.
How to predict the consequences on both local and global ecosystems of specific human activities.

Ecology Curriculum Map

Chapter 55: Population Ecology

Chapter 54: Community Ecology

Chapter 53: Ecosystems & Restoration Ecology

Blacklick Metro Park Field Trip Schedule

Blacklick Metro Park Map

Macroinvertebrate Field Guide

Loss of Biodiversity

Biodiversity

Logistic Growth

Global Climate Change

Exponential Growth

Population Variation

Populations

Population Ecology

Cooperative Interactions

Communities

Ecosystem Changes

Natural Ecosystem Change

Ecosystem Diversity

Energy Flow in Ecosystems

Biogeochemical Cycles

Ecosystems

Ecosystem Ecology

USDA Plant Database

Ohio Division of Wildlife: Species Index

Tree Identification Field Guide

Ohio Invasive Plants Council

HHMI Keystone Species

Encyclopedia of Life

Water on the Web

Dissolved Oxygen & Aquatic Primary Productivity