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.