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Modeling System Concept

The document discusses various factors that influence the survival, behavior, and reproductive activities of organisms. It mentions foraging methods, resource limitations, competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism, disease, self-preservation behaviors, mating rituals, the high energy costs of reproduction, and environmental influences like climate, habitats, geography, and topography that can impact organisms. Reproduction, while essential for species survival, can often result in death to the reproducing organism or its offspring due to the significant energy expenditures required.

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Modeling System Concept

The document discusses various factors that influence the survival, behavior, and reproductive activities of organisms. It mentions foraging methods, resource limitations, competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism, disease, self-preservation behaviors, mating rituals, the high energy costs of reproduction, and environmental influences like climate, habitats, geography, and topography that can impact organisms. Reproduction, while essential for species survival, can often result in death to the reproducing organism or its offspring due to the significant energy expenditures required.

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Nourishment /

Evolution
Species Survival / Organism
Food
Foraging Methods Behavioral Reproductive Activty
Intraspecific
Mate Selection / Availability
Harem / Offsping Defense
Dominance / Aggression
Resource Limitations
Prey /
Food

Living Competition
Habitat

Mutualists
Interspecific

Aggression / Territoriality
Harem / Offspring Defense

Niche Partitioning
Herbivory
Related, but
FAR from
equal.

Carnivory Predation Parasitism

Related
on many
Disease

occasions
Reduced Feeding
Self-Preservation
All in all,
Mating ‘Rituals’

Energy Loss
reproduction is

Neglect for
the single largest Reproductive Event
expense of energy any Gestation
organism will make. Post-Parturition
Care

Reproduction

Self-Sustaining Cycle
required for survival As such,
of species it can often result
in death to the organism
and its potential offspring.
Mean / Max / Min Temperatures
Weather Annual / Seasonal Rainfall

Contrasting habitats
Related to the
Mean / Relative Daylength

Proximity to
extent of latitudinal effects
of climate

Elevation

Topography
Geophysical

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