Some abiotic factors that my plant depends on is water, sunlight, carbon dioxide, dirt, and nitrogen. A plant needs soil to grow in as well as get nutrients from it. Our plant needs water, sunlight, and carbon dioxide for photosynthesis, and a plant needs nitrogen for nutrients. My plant also depends on some biotic factors. Some of those biotic factors being other plants that compete with my plant for space, and water, bacteria which turns nitrogen into ammonia for our plant to absorb as nutrients, and bugs that might land on or even eat our plant.
I know that my plants are engaged in competition with other plants for space in the soil, nutrients, sunlight, and water because other plants may be growing faster than mine. Or plants will start growing up for more sunlight rather than out.
With the struggle of competition winners and losers are determined by what plants survive and grow nice and tall and healthy. And by what plants die or are stunted. Not always is it clear to see what plants “win” or “ lose”. Sometimes all the plants are genuinely similar. Different plants grow to different standards. It is hard to say who won or lost if you are comparing multiple species. But in competition you can have one plant that grew taller and another plant that grew wider and spread out more. There are different characteristics of a plant that shows that both won but in different categories. The taller one got more sunlight, and the more spread out one managed to get more water and nutrients from the soil.
Not only do plants interact with each other, bacteria also has a relationship with plants. In the soil the bacteria turns the nitrogen into ammonia and then into nitrates which the plant then uses for nutrients.
In the garden there seems to be a secondary succession. There was a disturbance in the ecosystem, taking the weeds out of the area and shifting the soil. Then new life started growing from the soil.
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