An Ecological Analysis of the Garden and Our Plants

Abiotic factors that our plants depend on is sunlight, precipitation, temperature, soil, and space. These factors are main parts of the development of our plants because the sunlight and soil play a part in photosynthesis with our plant. Also, the precipitation and space are major parts of the growth for our plant because our plant needs space for its roots to expand along with the plant and for the plant to actually grow, water is required so irrigation, or precipitation is needed. Biotic factors that our plants depend on are parasites, other organisms, and their role with these organisms whatever they may be. This is because without some sort of competition or another organism having to do with our plant, the plant will be on its own, not receiving or losing anything from other plants, making it difficult for our plant to thrive.

We know that our plants are engaged in competition because there are other plants growing in the same garden bed wanting to take up their own space. Our plants are competing for nutrients, growth, and space in the garden and they are competing against the other organisms, as well as the chickens and those certain bugs as they tend to eat and nibble some parts of our plants.

Winners and losers are determined on how the plants grow, the amount of space they use and receive, and how some plants struggle to grow and have a hard time receiving the materials they need for growth. It isn’t always so clear cut who wins and loses because some results can be very similar and one of the plants can just be slightly bigger than another or they can suffer, but it is hard to recognize it. How the plants show their improvements or struggles pretty much determine which plants lose, and those that win because of how their attributes are portrayed and displayed.

Our plants are involved in parasitism as well because of how other organisms or animals are eating parts of our plants.The plant is affected by losing nutrients and parts of its own self, and the other animals and organisms are benefited because not only do they get food, but more space and ability to thrive off of the suffering of our plants.

We know that succession is occurring in our garden because before we had any thought of planting them, there was already soil, and everything needed to start lives of plants. It seems more like secondary succession because there was already soil, and clearly living organisms from each year before ours. Our plants are coming after all of these other ones, with used soil that shows that it is secondary succession.