Communities

COMMUNITIES

by Anton Antonio

March 11, 2015

What is a community?  Community is commonly defined as a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.  Community is also a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, aspirations and goals.  This is how we would characterize community.  In ecology however, a community is an assemblage or associations of populations of two or more different species occupying the same contiguous geographical area and in a particular period of time.  The term community, in natural and environmental sciences, has a variety of applications.  In its simplest form, it refers to groups of organism in a temporal period and spatial area.

A community is the biological component of the ecosystem.  The different animal and plant species represents the important elements that comprise a community and having specific roles.  These either play the role of producers, consumers and decomposers.  There really is a very dynamic relationship between these elements that allows co-existence… the demise of one trips the delicate balance of life in the ecosystem.

Individual organisms do not survive alone without relating and depending on other organisms.  In a community, several species of flora and fauna co-habit and develop a high degree of dependence with each other.  These organisms, also called populations, aggregate to constitute a community and, if more, communities.

Just my little thoughts…

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