Ecology and its domain
Interactions
Conditions
Resources
Life, death, and life histories
100

The position of a species within an ecosystem, describing both the range of conditions necessary for persistence of the species, and its ecological role in the ecosystem.

Ecological niche

100

A symbiotic relationship between two species in the biological world that is dependent and beneficial to both parties.

Mutualism

100

Organisms that maintain a constant body temperature independent of the environment, regulating body temperature through metabolism

Endotherm

100

Shrubs or trees growing along the coasts of tropical and subtropical seas and rivers or at the intersections of seas and rivers serve many ecological functions.

Mangrove

100

Optimize the balance between the energy expended in acquiring food and the energy gained from foods

Optimal foraging strategy

200

A species that has a significant impact on its community or ecosystem, such that its removal leads to major changes

Keystone species

200

The process where two or more species evolve together due to their close ecological interactions

Coevolution

200

Name three environmental conditions

Temperature, precipitation, humidity, pH, salinity, wind/waves/currents

200

BONUS

What is the name of Taiwan's only living endemic feline?

The leopard cat! Prionailurus bengalensis


200

Evolution from an ancestral clade into widely diverse forms

Adaptive radiation

300

The set of conditions in which a species is able to lives, rather than the entire set of environmental conditions where they are able to live

Realized niche

300

Shift in temperature response of an individual after exposed to lower/ higher temperatures

Acclimatization

300

The conceptual boundaries that limit where an organism can live, grow, and reproduce

Ecological niche
300

The type of competition that describes organisms indirectly competing with other organisms for resources by limiting the resources availability to others

Exploitation competition

300

The population estimation method consisting of obtaining, tagging, releasing, and then searching again for individuals within a population

Capture recapture

400

When two forms can mate and produce fertile offspring

Biological species concept

400

The name of the mechanism that caused the polymorphism in the body color of the pepper moth 


Mannmade selection pressure

400

Name three characteristics of a species that temperature can impact

Body size, gender, distribution, development rate

400

A competition type in which organisms directly compete for resources, such as by aggression

Interference competition

400

The type of individual in which development timing and form strongly depend on interactions with the environment

Modular organism

500

Ehe occurrence of two or more clearly different forms (or phenotypes) in the population of a species occupying the same habitat at the same time

Polymorphism
500

BONUS

What is the name of Professor Chou’s study organism?

Fiddler crabs!

500

The principle that tells us that two species can't have exactly the same niche in a habitat and stably coexist

Competitive exclusion principle
500

When different species in an ecosystem divide the available resources to avoid direct competition

Resource partitioning

500

The five parameters used to describe, explain and understand the distribution and abundance of organisms

(hint: the four 'N' in population equation)

Past population, births, deaths, emmigration, immigration

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