Description of the field Location

The field where our investigations were carried belonged to the region of Simijaca / Cundinamarca Colombia.  Simijaca has very template weather. It has sunny, dry and windy days, and cold, wet nights. We traveled several areas of Simijaca, such as high mountains; forestall paths which included rivers, tall trees and a variety of animal and plant species. We also spend time on plane areas where it was more common to see cattle herds rather than lots of plant variety species.

Depending on the area that we were located the abiotic and biotic factors changed. When we were on the plane area, the biotic factors present were:

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  • The vegetation present. This includes grass, plant species (such as trees, flowers, bushes…) but in this case, was the cattle herd was located, only grass and some tress were present.
  • Competitors and predators, such as cows, dogs, or farm animals.
  •  Pathogens or parasites such as insects and small animals, which are responsible for decomposing the organic material such as the excrement from the cows.

By the other hand, the abiotic factors present in this area were:

  • The temperature, which was the same in every part of the field. As said before, it had sunny, dry and ...

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