Biodiversity & Biogeography
These 2 factors are used to measure species biodiversity.
What is species richness and species evenness?
In this ecological tolerance zone, individuals are able to grow and reproduce.
What is the optimal zone?
Occasional events with irregular frequency (ex: droughts, fires) are on this type of time frame.
What is episodic?
These are the 4 ecosystem services.
What are provisioning, cultural, supporting, and regulating services?
This is our class mascot.
Who is Kirby?
According to the theory of island biogeography, this type of island would have the fewest number of different species.
What is far from the mainland and small in size?
3 categories that would be found on a range of tolerance graph
What are optimal range, zone of physiological stress, and zone of intolerance?
This is the key difference between primary and secondary succession.
What is intact soil during secondary succession?
Trees filter air by absorbing air pollutants which reduces health care costs for treating diseases like asthma and bronchitis.
What is regulating service?
Robin Wall Kimmerer says she was raised by this fruit in her essay that we read for class.
What are wild strawberries?
These three factors can contribute to the biodiversity levels of an island.
What are distance from mainland, size of island, and latitude?
Conditions outside of a species' range of tolerance means that species will have to
What is adapt, migrate, or die?
This species breaks down rock. Eventually, it's dead/decomposing bodies will mix with sediments to form soil.
What is lichen?
Soil creation
This is the astrological sun sign of someone who would be born today.
What is a Scorpio?
These types of events reduce genetic diversity in a population. An example is the wolves falling into a mine in Isle Royale.
What is a bottleneck effect?
These types of species have a wider range of tolerance for different factors.
What is a generalist?
This posts that ecosystems experiencing moderate levels of disturbance will have a higher level of biodiversity than those with high or low disturbance levels.
What is the intermediate disturbance hypothesis?
Fishermen pay for fishing licenses to catch fish in clean rivers
What is cultural service?
This was a natural disruption that impacted our deer population in yesterday's carrying capacity game.
Answers vary by class
The Florida panther population decreased down to 30 in 1900s due to hunting & habitat loss. Kinked tails, heart defects, and low sperm counts increased within the population due to this population loss. This is an example of...
What is inbreeding depression?
Steelhead trout are an example of this type of species
What is an indicator species?
In the Mt. St. Helen case study, this happening caused succession to proceed differently than expected.
What is some plants and animals survived the blast because they were buried deep within the snowbanks or sheltered in steep slopes facing away from the blast?
Overfishing leads to fish population collapse affecting lower fish sales in the future. This impacts this ecosystem service.
What is provisioning service?
This is the state where Talladega National Wetlands is located.
Where is Alabama?