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Resource (biology)
A biological resource is a substance or object required by an organism for normal growth, maintenance, and reproduction. Resources can be consumed by one organism and, as a result, become unavailable to another organism.[1][2][3] For plants key resources are sunshine, nutrients, water, and place to grow. For animals key resources are food, water, and territory.
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Key resources for plants
Terrestrial plants require particular resources for photosynthesis and to complete their life cycle of germination, growth, reproduction, and dispersal[4][5]:
- Carbon dioxide
- Microsite (ecology)
- Nutrients
- Photosynthetically active radiation
- Pollination
- Seed dispersal
- Soil
- Water
Key resources for animals
Animals resources particular resources for metabolism and to complete their life cycle of gestation, birth, growth, and reproduction[6]:
Resources and ecological processes
Resource availability plays a central role in ecological processes:
See also
- Abiotic component
- Biotic component
- Community ecology
- Ecology
- Population ecology
- Plant ecology
- Resource (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Miller, G.T., and S. Spoolman. 2011. Living in the Environment: Principles, Connections, and Solutions, 17th ed. Brooks-Cole, Belmont, CA. ISBN 0-538-73534-1.
- ^ Ricklefs, R.E. 2005. The Economy of Nature, 6th edition. WH Freeman, USA.
- ^ Chapin, F.S. III, H.A. Mooney, M.C. Chapin, and P. Matson. 2011. Principles of terrestrial ecosystem ecology. Springer, New York.
- ^ Barbour, M.G. J.H. Burk, W.D. Pitts and F.S. Gilliam. 1998. Terrestrial Plant Ecology, 3rd ed. Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco, CA.
- ^ Craine, J.M. 2009. Resource strategies in wild plants. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
- ^ Smith, T.M., and R.L. Smith. 2008. Elements of ecology, 7th ed. Benjamin Cummings, San Francisco, CA.
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