Animals & Their Environment
Animals & Their Environment
Animals & Their Environment
Environment
By: Ipeh & Jiny
General Principles of Ecology
ECOLOGY – how organisms interact with one
another and with their environment
ENVIRONMENT – living and non-living
components
• ABIOTIC – non-living component or physical
factors as soil, rainfall, sunlight, temperatures
• BIOTIC – living component are other
organisms.
Animal As
Heterotrophic
Organism
eukaryotes Have no cell wall.
Capable of moving
heterotrophic
Multicellular
Food Chain & Food web
ENDOTHERMIC
AND
ECTOTHERMIC
ANIMALS
Endothermic Animal
Rhinoceros roll in
cool mud to coat
their skin (this also
prevents sunburn).
anemonefish, have a
body temperature
close to the water
around them.
Biogeographic Rules
Bergmann’s
Allen’s Rule
Rule
12
8
4
0
6 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44
Condition and Resources as environtment
Condition
1 2
=> Abiotic factor that different in time and place, be responed by Living things in
different way
Resources
- Esential
- Subtituante
Limiting Factor and Law of Tolerance
• Limiting factor
- Liebig’s Law of the Minimum
(do You remember?)
• Law of tolerance
V.E. Shelford
to state the tolerance degree=> steno & eury
• Law of Tolerance
Species as ecological indicator