Panolia

Abbas Hassan

Food Web

Food Web

• As seen in the previous slide, deer feast on grass, among some other plants, and are preyed on by cougars.

• They exist on the second trophic level, as primary consumers.

Biome

• They are located in temperate deciduous forests throughout Southeast Asia

• This biome is changing, and therefore not able t support as many organisms due to locals stripping trees of bark, cutting and using the trees to excess and man-made forest fires.

Competition

• Competition arrives in the form of rutting• Rutting is when male deer compete to choose

mates

Biodiversity

• This species is endangered, which may ruin the biodiversity of its ecosystem

• It has a big role because it is one of the main ways energy from plants can be transferred to tertiary consumers

Adaptive Radiation

• When starting to live in habitats with wetter grounds a member of this species (Panolia eldii eldi) developed special hooves, which let it fill a niche in its ecosystem, that is different from where other deer live.

• Species with more solid ground have hooves suited for that terrain

Adaptations

• It has hooves to allow it to easily traverse the ground

• Due to ancestors who lacked adequate resources it has improved food acquiring and processing organs

• For example, bigger and more complex teeth.

Evolution

• The Irish Elk was an ancestor of this species, whose most recent fossils date roughly 7700 years

• It stood 2.1 meters tall, had the largest antlers, which could reach lengths of 3.65 meters and it said to weigh up to 700 kg

Succession

• Primary succession would have no effect because the species lives in an ecosystem that already has soil

• Secondary succession would greatly effect the species because while the biome may eventually heal, the species will be without food for a prolonged time

Sources

• http://www.arkive.org/elds-deer/rucervus-eldii/

• http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/4265/0• The Natural History of Deer by Rory Putman• Deer By Rebecca Stefoff