I believe you're talking about a population.
The movement of plates allows these characteristics to happen. They occur in patterns because the three forms of plate boundaries are established at the site of certain features. We were plotting the features of the Planet that we already knew.
Species evolve during adaptive radiation to fill the different niches.
The repeated formation of new species change within species which are anagenesis and also loss species, through evolutionary history of life
An ecological footprint refers to the damage you did to your environment and what you'll leave behind.
So normally, a regular footprint should refer to just what you did and didn't do to this world, and an ecological is strictly refering to the environment.
Hope it helped,
BioTeacher101
