HABITATS

i. Biosphere, the earth or another planet

ii. Region, (e.g., California Floristic Province) “medium-scale area” or highest scale short of biosphere

1. Great Basin Desert

2. Chihuahuan Desert

3. Sonoran Desert

4. Colorado (combination of 3 and 5; JTNP falls between)

5. Mojave Desert

iii. Landscape, arrays of ecosystems within a region

iv. Ecosystem, biotic and abiotic components of environment

1. Biotic

a. Producers

b. Consumers (herbivores, average size: kangaroo rat) or (carnivores, average size: owls, bobcats, and mountain lions)

c. Decomposers (beetles, fungus, bacteria, termites, ants; fire, carbon into ground)

2. Abiotic

a. Minerals in the soil

v. Community (aka vegetation type), different species within an environment (influences)

vi. Specific Interactions