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This 7 page paper provides an overview of the variables that influence an organism's survival and success. This paper relates the fact that the success of any organism, whether it is in terms of basic survival or the capacity for reproduction of the species, reflects the organisms capacity for tolerance to an existing set of environmental variables. The response of an organism to changes in environmental factors occurs on a number of different levels, including behavioral, physiological and interactive changes. Bibliography lists 9 sources
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The response of an organism to changes in environmental factors occurs on a number of different levels, including behavioral, physiological and interactive changes. Understanding the correlation between these
changes, which can include everything from immediate responses (recoil, sensory changes) to sexual mimicry in response to environmental/population changes, can influence the success of an organism in terms of their
overall survival. The relationship between environmental factors and an organisms survival extends from the concept of fitness and the complex nature of biological structures. Physical adaptations, for example,
that occur in response to environmental factors often determine an organisms fitness and their relative capacity to withstand particular environmental changes. The ability of an organism to maintain stasis
in the presence of environmental changes is also a factor that determines an organisms success. For example, the cane toad, Bufo marinus, can maintain physical stasis by maintaining
a blood temperature that fluctuates with environmental changes. When the water changes temperature, the cold-blooded toad can alter their blood temperature to correspond with the environment, and can also
shift their body functions, retaining a physiological state of relative stasis during periods when temperatures changes dramatically. This type of change, then, is based on the correlation between physiological
function and environmental changes that improves the capacity of the toad to maintain physiological health in the midst of change. The concept of fitness, then, defines the capacity for synergy
in the presence of a combination of environmental effects. "This brings into play a number of possible interactions and coevolutionary processes, and whilst somewhat neglected in complexity experiments (which
are often dominated by conflict scenarios) is expected to become of increasing importance as we attempt to evolve systems of adequate complexity to mimic living systems. It is synergy that
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