ECOSYSTEM

Community and Population Ecology

Ecosystem

Factors Estimating
• Species Biotic and Ecological affecting population
MAP

• Population abiotic pyramids population size

• Community components • Pyramid of ecology
• Habitat numbers
• Niche • Pyramid of
CONCEPT

• Ecosystem Autotrophs and biomass

heterotrophs • Pyramid of
energy Quadrat Capture,
sampling mark,
technique release,
Biotic
recapture
components
• Parasitism technique
according to
trophic levels • Commensalism
• Mutualism
• Saprophytism
• Competition
Flow of • Predation
energy in
the food
chain

Mangrove swamps:
• Abiotic components
• Biotic components
• Adaptations
• Colonisation and succession
FORM 5

• Importance