Plant status update 4 By Cameron DeHart

Our plant relies on many abiotic factors to survive. Some of the factors are water, various minerals, radiation, and oxygen. Without one of any of these abiotic factors, our plant would die. Therefore, I see all of these factors as equally important.

From my observations, Our groups plant is in a form of competition for space, and resources to continue to grow and survive. However, it is quite different from a competition you would see from to animals.

Plants do not contain the ability to attain what it needs independently. As I stated earlier, a plant relies on another being or natural process to supply it with the nutrients it needs. However, plants have adapted to this by storing water and minerals for times when resources may be less abundant.

More interactions our plant has is mutualism because insects can eat our plant and both species benefit from it.

There is evidence that a form of succession goes on in the garden ecosystem. Soil in the beds before we planted means that there was already secondary succession in the gardens ecosystem.