Prior to the Rarangi trip, we were looking at patterns in ecosystems. Today we continued looking at the pattern types. These will be relevant to our coursework when we go to Rotoiti.
Primary and secondary succession is where organisms colonise new areas (and to an extent this was occurring at Rarangi).
Zonation is where the organisms are arranged in particular locations depending upon the abiotic factors (e.g. sea shore zonation) and attitudinal donation (equator to the poles) as well as up a mountain (vertical zonation).
We discussed this and then answered questions in the biozone book.
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