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Individual

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The individual organism is a basic unit in ecology. Environmental factors impact the individual and affect its survival, reproduction, and longevity.

When you look at the landscape, you notice that there are grasslands in some places and forests in others.

[Grassland]
[Forest]
GrasslandForest

Environmental factors, such as temperature, moisture, and soil are critical in determining whether individual grasses or trees can survive at a particular location. It is the interaction between the organism and its environment that results in success or failure and leads to adaptation.

In this section, we will identify some of the environmental factors that are important to organisms. We will look at the ways in which the environmental factors affect organisms. We will see how some organisms are adapted within a range of environmental factors.

Ecology, like the other sciences, uses a technical vocabulary. For each lesson, useful terms will be identified for you to learn to help you better understand the principles and examples of ecology. Most are explained in the textbook (and many are included in the glossary in the back of the textbook), and some are linked to glossaries on the web, e.g., like ecology. In addition, there are various on-line dictionaries and glossaries that may provide definitions of some terms, for example:

After completing this module, you should be able to:

To complete this module, you should:


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