In Biology and Ecology, a resource is a substance or object in the environment 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. For plants key resources are light, nutrients, water, and place to grow. For animals key resources are food, water, and territory.
Video Resource (biology)
Key resources for plants
Terrestrial plants require particular resources for photosynthesis and to complete their life cycle of germination, growth, reproduction, and dispersal:
- Carbon dioxide
- Microsite (ecology)
- Nutrients
- Pollination
- Seed dispersal
- Soil
- Water
Maps Resource (biology)
Key resources for animals
Animals resources particular resources for metabolism and to complete their life cycle of gestation, birth, growth, and reproduction:
- Foraging
- Territory
- Water
Resources and ecological processes
Resource availability plays a central role in ecological processes:
- Carrying capacity
- Biological competition
- Liebig's law of the minimum
- Niche differentiation
See also
- Abiotic component
- Biotic component
- Community ecology
- Ecology
- Population ecology
- Plant ecology
- size-asymmetric competition
References
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