An Ecological Analysis of the Garden and our Plants

    The garden is exposed to certain factors, just like any other ordinary ecosystem. Our plants are exposed to certain Abiotic and biotic factors and these element have affect on our garden and on the plants. Examples of Abiotic that involve the growing of the plant are the climate, precipitation, consistency of the soil, sunlight, and pollution surrounding it.  These are the factors that are non-living and they consist in any ecosystem. There are also Biotic factors and they are living factors can have some change in how our plants grow. Competition of other plants growing around the garden, bacteria, insects, and maybe some animals. These are biotic factors that can have an affect on the garden.


   The plants In the garden can be in competition with many things surrounding it. Things that a plant competes with the soil they both want nutrients they both need certain nutrients. Usually growing plants involves weeds growing they compete with each other for water the space that is given.  They also compete for the amount of sunlight that is given during the day. Competition can be any where and it can be very crucial for the plants growing in those surrounding areas.

  It's not sure who really wins are loses in these types of cases because sometimes it can be uncertain. There is no clear cut of winning and losing this is caused because sometimes half and half.


The plants are interacting with much of their surroundings and they are interacting with each and every cycle. They interact with the whole environment that surrounds it. Like the air quality, human interaction, or any interaction with any type of species. The affect on the plants can depends sometimes they can be positive sometimes they can be negative. The way we can find out is see how the garden and the plants react to their surroundings.


  Succession has a lot of say in this, there is two types of succession, primary and secondary. Primary is where its a new fresh start of an area where it begins to create new vegetation and etc. Secondary succession is where new vegetation is growing after a natural disaster like a fire or like an area that once had vegetation. I believe the garden seems like secondary succession because during the summer it was almost exposed to the dryness of the drought and as well there use to be old vegetation growing there from previous plantings.


 I hope to observe more of the plants in the garden to maybe come back and correct my answering incase of different results while analyzing the garden over the year.

Biogeochemical Cycles and Our Plants

 

After the first few weeks, our plant has made its way to being a beautiful green leafy plant. When we  observed our plant we noticed some changing factors. We have concluded that it  has grown much more than it was before it was placed in the garden. We can say the overall appearance of the plant has became bigger and the leaves are broader. With the help of the water cycle our plant looks healthy and very much alive. A plant needs water to grow it is very important, the water cycle introduces itself to a plant and the plant does its part to help the cycle continue. Our plant has used its water to grow, it takes it in from them soil using the roots and the water travels up the roots and usually stored in the central vacuoles of all the cells that make up the plant itself. The Carbon cycle is also introduced to plants in the garden,  the plants in the garden have run the biological carbon cycle using the process of photosynthesis to convert Carbon dioxide into carbon-rich carbohydrates and certain sugars to feed themselves. They not only feed themselves, also they make oxygen as a byproduct of photosynthesis. and elements essential for all life.  The nitrogen cycle also plays a factor in a plant’s life. After all plants are producers, and the plants sooner or later will eventually be consumed by biotic force. Eventually, the plants die and they produce wastes that contain nitrogen.  So During decomposition , these nitrogen compounds get decomposed by bacteria in the soil, releasing  them back to the cycle.