Blog Post Assignment #4 - Haely Guerrero

Our plants depend on a few abiotic factors for survival. Some of these are sunlight, carbon dioxide, water, soil, and other things. These factors are important because without one or the other, our plants would surely die. Though, i wouldn't say our plants depend on any biotic factors, they don't really depend on other producers, consumers, or decomposers.

Our plants are most definetly engaged in competition right now. Our plants are competing for sunlight and water. They compete with the weeds and other plants of the class for it (though we don't kill anyone elses plant.)

Well, i guess the ''winners'' would be the ones who survive and the ''losers'' would be those who die. Except, to tell who is a winner or loser is quite hard because if a bug took a bite out of your plant it doesn't mean its game over. It also makes it complicated because the plants might be doing better off than the others and you wouldn't be able to tell.

All our plants take part in atleast more than one interaction. Besides competition, we also have mutualism with our plants and the worms living in the soil. The worms bring more water and air into the soil, where the plants live, and they in return get a meal by decomposing other dead plants.
I suppose in a way there might be succession in our garden, seeing how we brought in new plants to it. If it is succession, i believe it would be secondary succession because there is already soil. It would also be a secondary succession because we had grasses growing in the garden before we had planted our own plants for the project. So, in a way, i guess there is succession in the garden.