Some of the
abiotic factors that our plant depends on for survival are water, soil, and
sunlight. Other plants, animals, and insects would be an example of biotic
factors that affect our plant. We have been seeing insects affecting our plant
recently. We think that it is some type of caterpillar because it is munching
on the leaves. This is predation, done by a primary consumer. Also, invading
grasses have been growing around our plant which is completion for ours because
it grows taller it could cover ours blocking the sunlight. This grass could
also be taking water and nutrients from the soil. So far, we have not seen any
animals affecting out plant but is squirrel could come in and burry their acorn
for winter but dig up our plant in the process.
The winner
in competition between two plants is the one who grows more or benefits more
from the resources, but it is hard to determine which one that is. You don’t always know what a successful
version of the certain plant is like and when you throw limited resources on
top of that it is even more difficult.
An example
of succession in the garden is when the other plants die, but other ones sprout
up where it was. This would be secondary succession because the plants are
growing from dirt, where as in primary succession the start with no dirt.
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