Blog Eight: Niche?

One thing that seems to confuse me about Chapter 7 is the concept of Niche. I don't understand the differences between the two Niche's; Fundamental Niche and the Realized Niche. Is one Niche suppose to be more dominate than the other, like the Brown Anole being dominate over the Green anole. I ask because the Brown anole took over parts of florida which the Green anole occupied at first. The green anole were pushed out into the wetlands because the brown are certainly much more bigger, even though they came from Cuba and aren't native to Florida. This is just something that still seems to confuss me and I would be glad if it were to become clear.

Blog Seven: Dear Senator Moor,

My name is Lauren Ramirez and I am a concered citizen of California. The poplation in America has increase over the past years. Not just here, but all over the world as well. I believe that a solution to this may seem radical and even no clear. However, we could always try in improving the future. A reproduction policy might be needed, even though it does seem to bizzare. We don't have to nesseccarily have a reproduction policy, since we are Americans and it goes way beyond the constitution. What we could have is a better knowledge of this. We could teach it to teens and younge adults who seem eager to have sex and not kow the consequences, or rather not care of them. Any sort of methods to decrease the early pregnencies, which seems to be increasing as well. As long as we try to stay as far away from a reproductive policy. It would just be hypocritical to do so in the "Land of the Free".

Blog Six: No Babies, Still People

A population growth really seems to depend on the baby growth. However, 2 other factors may also help the population growth, even if the baby growth weren't increasng. One of the two is Immigration. If there was an increase in the immigration rate, then the population will increase as well. More people entering the country means more people in the country that does not involve the painful hours of labor. The second way of increasing the population number is the death rate lowering. If there was less sicknesses, then there would be less deaths. This would cause the population to stable, if not increase it from the previous years were death rates were high or even average. These 2 do help with keeping population average and if not even increase it without any newborns. So, if we wanted human population in the world to lower itself, then we shouldn't just be concerned about teen pregnencies, but also immigration and a person's health. Then again, if peple were to immigrate, the only difference it would make of them is the different location. Unless of course, if they have children. Which leads back to pregnencies. Confusing.

Blog Five: Death By Humans

I believe that around the world, because of humans greedy lives, many different biomes are being affected. It is extremly hard to pick one in specific, so I will pick the one I'm worried for the most. The one tht helped changed my life into becoming a full-on vegetarian. The oceanic biomes of the world are in great danger. These fish are very fragile. They do not know how to react to the human things in their environment. For instance, trash is being thrown straight into the ocean. Humans are littering and not caring about the end results, which will be no more ALL YOU CAN EAT SEAFOOD at "Joe's Lobster House" (made up resturant, by the way). Sea animals are eating non-recycled objects which contain toxic chemicals. This DOES effect the animals, and people DO eat those animals!

Something else with this habitat that cannot protect themselves is Dolphine slaughters and tradings that take place around the world. One infamous place would be a cove located in Japan, which was documented in the film "The Cove". This film exposed the truth about entertainment dolphines in show-case amusment parks like "Sea World". Not only entertainment, but also humans apetite for these beautiful creatures.

In the end, would it be worht it? All the new and improved devices? Devices with toxic chemicals which will effect your $30-something lobster meal. The family trips to see killer whales kill yet another trainer? Their not called killer whales for nothing and they're not meant to be enclosed. Yes, this biome is in grave danger, but so are so many, many others. The question is, "Will we be able to stop this madness?"

Blog Four: Species & Biome & Biome & Species

A species can have a big impact on a biome, and vis versa. How this could be is by a species entering a biome whome is completely transformed from that biome. For instance, if a fox were to a forest biome, then the rabbit population would decrease because the fox will eat them all. When the foxes eat them all, their reproduction will increase as a result. Since the rabbits population decrease, other populations which depend on the rabbit will decrease as well. Rabbits eat many vegetations, so with their decreas, plants will flourish. A biome could affect a speicies because the species would have to learn to adapt to the environment. For instance, if the fox isn't use to cold weather and the forest is cold, then over time, the fox may gain thicker fur to protect itself. These are just a few examples of how they affect one another.

Blog Three: The River Habitat

A river is fresh water, which usually flows to the ocean, a lake, or even another river. Its animals include those of amphibians, reptiles, birds, and insects. These organisms respond to changes in river channel locations and pattern of flow. All the wildlife in and around a river depends on what way the river is flowing, as well as what the entering water brings and what the exit water removes. Each animal realy do depend on one another to live, so rivers are a special place for them. A river is part of the "hydrological cycle", which is when water from such a place is usually collected from precipitaion and other water resources. A river may also be known as a stream, but it all depends on it's size. So, this makes the river a very strange and unique form of water.