PRACTICAL - Nocturnal pollination and seed dispersal - WCON5350 PRACTICAL edge effects.pdf

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• compare different components of tropical forest ecology

• concepts of edge effects and the potential relationship with predation rates

• concepts of nutrient cycling, the carbon cycle, and decomposition

• biotic factors

• uch as temperature, humidity, wind, sunlight

• abiotic factors

• edge effects are the changes that occur to habitats on their boundaries.

• natural

• or man-made,

• habitat loss, fragmentation

• Forest edges influence more than half of the world’s forests and contribute to worldwide declines in biodiversity and ecosystem functions

• ratio of generalist species to ‘forest specialist’ species

• dogs to have their own impacts.

• nutrient cycling to vary.

• related to edge,

• measure nutrient inputs.

• tropical forests tend to have nutrient poor soils,

• reliant on their own nutrient inputs

• in the form of dead vegetation

• Abiotic factors