Vocabulary
Predictable changes in an ecosystem after a disturbance
What is ecological succession?
This type of succession tends to be "faster"?
Secondary
This type of ecosystem/biome tends to have the highest biodiversity index?
The variety of life in a specific area
What is biodiversity?
Species that live in many different places, eat a variety of foods, and tolerate different conditions
What are generalist species?
The ecosystem service concerned with processes we do ourselves
What is supporting?
After a glacier melts the area would go through this type of succession
Primary
The role an organism plays in an ecosystem
What is a niche?
Actions that help to save an ecosystem and its inhabitants
What is conservation?
Range of conditions that an organism can endure before injury or death
What is ecological tolerance?
The first species to colonize an area after a disturbance
What is a pioneer species?
In terms of succession, this stage would have the highest biodiversity
What is a Climax community?
The study of ecological relationships and community structure on islands
What is island biogeography?
The ecosystem service concerned with money generated by recreation
What is cultural?
Range where an organism will die
What is the zone of intolerance?
Characteristics that help a species tolerate or even benefit in their ecosystem
What are adaptations?
These two species are often pioneer species in primary succession
What is moss and lichens.
The four aspects of biodiversity.
What is genetic, ecosystem, species, and functional?
Single species rapidly evolving into several new species to use different resources
What is adaptive radiation?
Zone that has fewer organisms and marginal niches
What is the zone of physiological stress?
The four types of adaptations
What are behavioral, physiological, structural, and co-adaptations?
Appear after pioneer species have developed deeper soil with more nutrients
What are mid successional species?
Species that have legislation/acts passed to protect them and their habitats
What are endangered species?
What are the three main ways that humans affect biodiversity?
Overexploitation, pollution, habitat destruction
States that the existence and abundance of a species is determined by the levels of environmental factors
What is Shelford's law?