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Question

Major biotic components of the Everglades National Park ecosystem.

1. What are the major primary producers (e.g., plant forms)?

2. What are the major consumers, top predators, keystone species?

NOTE for sections (a) and (b): do not give lengthy lists of organisms found in the ecosystem. Focus instead on the organisms that are the most essential and abundant, although if there is anything special about biodiversity of the ecosystem, please, mention this (e.g., unusually low or high diversity of some groups of organisms, or presence of rare or charismatic species.

3. Research and write about the natural history of a two species you mention, in order to get to know them better: on autotroph (plant) and one heterotroph (animal). Give their common and Latin binomial names, describe to which large taxonomic group they belong to (plant family, animal phylum or class), describe the range of their geographic distribution, their adaptations to the environment and place in the food web. What interspecies interactions are these species involved in? Check if any interesting research was conducted on these species and briefly describe it.