Title: Describe the relationship between living organisms and the environment.
Course: Forestry Management, Advanced (18502-II) > Section: Viewing the Forest as a Community (Ecology)

Description should include

- forest influences on ecosystem cycles
  - water
  - nutrients/soil
- beneficial and adverse biological influences on tree growth
  - commensalism
  - symbiosis
  - parasitism
- relationships between trees and living organisms
  - feeding relationships (food chains and webs)
  - energy transfer among organisms
  - habitat
  - recreational.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What would be the effects of removing trees from ecosystems?
- Why are interactions among living organisms necessary to healthy environments?
- Why are trees essential to food and energy flow within forest communities?