Abiotic Factors: The Santa Monica Mountains have a substantial amount of very rich soil. This enables the mountain flowers to grow. The Santa Monica mountains have a huge and varied types of flowers, for example sunflowers. Sunflowers help the environment they live in by helping bees get pollen to gather up on their bodies to carry to other flowers and pollinate them. There are 153,075 acres of trees on the Santa Monica mountain range, with this much land humans and animals both have room to roam and make homes. Pine trees grow there with all the rich soil that makes all this happen.
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Biotic Factors: The Santa Monica mountain range have a huge number of varied animals. Over two hundred and sixty native vertebrae species are located there. And over five species of animals are expirated. (Extinct only in the mountains). Over 150 species are rare and or uncommon to these mountains. The Santa Monica mountain range has had a 2% drop of animals on these mountains.
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Density dependent limiting factor: the amount of food is a density dependent limiting factor because the amount of food that is there is from the amount of eating occurs.
Another is disease because the population can cause a disease to spread rapidly. |
Density independent limiting factor: the weather is a density independent limiting factor because it is not caused by the population.
Another is natural disasters because they can occur at any moment not just because the population has caused it. |
Roles of Predation:
A coyote eats a deer- A coyote sees a deer as a food source A snow leopard eats a llama - snow leopard sees a llama as a food source A mountain goat eats native grasses- a goat sees the grasses as a food source. |
Citations- www.nps.govN.p., n.d. Web. 17 Sept. 2013.