Ecology Notes A level Biology

Handwritten Ecology Notes perfect for Edexcel A level Biology. Comprised of 9 pages including Notes on the following topics:

1. Definition of Biotic and Abiotic Factors
2. Definition of Ecosystem, Biosphere, Succession, Plagioclimax, and Climax Community
3. Explanation of Primary and Secondary succession
4. Effect of abiotic factors on population (ight, temperature, wind and water, water availability, oxygen availability, and edaphic factors)
5. Effect of Biotic Factors on population (Predation, Finding a mate, Territory, Parasitism and Disease)
6. Definition of Intraspecific, and Interspecific competition
7. Density Dependent and Density Independent factors.
8. Definiton of Abundance, and Distribution
9. Explanation of the 3 Different types of Distribution (Uniform, Clumped, and Random)
10. Definition of Null Hypothesis
11. How to use Students T test
12. Notes on trophic levels and food chains
13. Law of Conservation of energy
14. How Energy is lost
15. Definitions of Net Primary Production, Gross Primary Production and Secondary Production
16. How to calculate Net Primary Production
17. How to calculate Efficiency
18. Diagram of Carbon cycle
19. Definition of Carbon sink
20. Explanation of Greenhouse effect
21. Definition of Global Warming, Climate, Weather, Climate Change
22. The role of Methane in Global Warming
23. Evidence for increase in earth’s temperature
24. Definition of Proxies,Dendrochronology and Peat Bogs
25. How Frozen isotopes provide evidence for increase in temperature
26. Definition of Anthropogenic, Correlation, and Extropolate.
27. Definition of Selection pressure, Evolution, Allopatric speciation, Sympatric Speciation.