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This is a photo of one of the ponds behind the Headwater apartment complex off of Eastwood. While there are many ecological concepts that could be identified in this photo, several pop out. The first is the concept of intra- or interspecific competition, which can be inferred from the fact that there are a combination of smaller, juvenile plants and larger adults (though I'm not familiar with the presented species names), both needing their optimal amount of resources (here we could say the larger trees are outcompeting the smaller trees for light uptake). Another fundamental concept of ecology seen here is the water cycle. Here we see two forms of water: 1. the pond (liquid water) and 2. the clouds (water vapor, a tiny portion of which may have been supplied by evaporation of the pond water or transpiration from the leaves of the trees). Furthermore, this photo demonstrates the trees' (which are autotrophs) utilization of their ecological resources, the most obvious ones being: water, mineral nutrients (mainly from the sand/dirt mixture that can be seen on the right) and sunlight. It could also be argued that since the photo is of trees and its light out, photosynthesis is also occurring in this photo (and thus we are seeing photosynthetically active radiation), even though the sunlight is partially filtered by the clouds. I could go on, but these were some of the concepts that came to mind when I took this photo.
IMG_2246
This is a photo of one of the ponds behind the Headwater apartment complex off of Eastwood. While there are many ecological concepts that could be identified in this photo, several pop out. The first is the concept of intra- or interspecific competition, which can be inferred from the fact that there are a combination of smaller, juvenile plants and larger adults (though I'm not familiar with the presented species names), both needing their optimal amount of resources (here we could say the larger trees are outcompeting the smaller trees for light uptake). Another fundamental concept of ecology seen here is the water cycle. Here we see two forms of water: 1. the pond (liquid water) and 2. the clouds (water vapor, a tiny portion of which may have been supplied by evaporation of the pond water or transpiration from the leaves of the trees). Furthermore, this photo demonstrates the trees' (which are autotrophs) utilization of their ecological resources, the most obvious ones being: water, mineral nutrients (mainly from the sand/dirt mixture that can be seen on the right) and sunlight. It could also be argued that since the photo is of trees and its light out, photosynthesis is also occurring in this photo (and thus we are seeing photosynthetically active radiation), even though the sunlight is partially filtered by the clouds. I could go on, but these were some of the concepts that came to mind when I took this photo.