Adaptions to Consumer-Prey Interactions
Don't startle a stinky skunk! This is because it likely has this adaption to consumer-prey interactions.
What are chemical adaptions to consumer-prey interactions?
What are alarm calls/mobbing?
Endoparasites or ectoparasites. Tapeworms.
What are endoparasites?
Islands can include more than just small bodies of land surrounded by water. Examples include:
What are alpine peaks and forest patches?...
Sum of all organisms living in an area and their environment. This may contain many communities (aquatic, terrestrial, etc.)
What is an ecosystem?
Physical hiding and camouflage are examples of this adaption to consumer-prey interactions.
What is hiding?
A turtles shell, or porcupines spines are example of this.
What are mechanical adaptions to consumer-prey interactions?
Müllerian mimicry or Batesian mimicry.
Characterized by a toxic model, non-toxic mimic, Convergent Evolution, Antagonistic coevolution-directional selection, and the Red Queen Principle
What is Batesian mimicry?
As stated by the the species-area hypothesis.
What is larger areas have more species than smaller areas?
Examples include dogs, cats, humans, elephants, starfish, and sharks. Willow trees are excluded.
What are consumers/heterotrophs?
Both predators and prey can have this trait that allows them to look smaller and less menacing or large and intimidating depending on what they are copying.
What is deception/mimicry?
A gummy worm that is green-backed to blend into the trees above to hide from flying predators and has brown sides to blend into the chocolate rocks surrounding it demonstrates this adaption to consumer-prey interactions.
What is countershading?
Behavioral Parasitism or Cognitive Parasitism? A bird lands in another bird's nest and proceeds to throw out the existing eggs before laying eggs of its own and then leaving.
What is Behavioral Parasitism?
A small island that is located very far from the mainland likely has these rates of immigration and extinction.
What is a decrease in immigration and an increase in extinction?
They set the amount of energy available to
food chain.
What are primary producers/autotrophs?
In elementary school I won this PE contest that consisted of running around cones in a zgzag pattern. In the wild however, this skill would help one flee from predators.
What is agility?
An organism that relies on safety in numbers likely demonstrates this adaption to consumer-prey interactions.
What are groups?
Species Richness or Species Diversity. 472 species of fish in a coral reef.
What is species Richness?
According to the effects of Island Biogeography on size and distance to the mainland, this island will likely have the highest species richness. Options: Sri Lanka, Easter Island, Iceland, or St Helena Island.
What is Sri Lanka?
100,000,000 Joules of energy is present in the primary producers of an ecosystem will result in this amount of energy in the secondary consumers.
What is 1,000,000 Joules?
This adaptions to consumer-prey interaction allows synchronous production of progeny and it can also cause predator satiation. An example is the 17 year cicada.
What is masting?
This type of coloration is often very contrasting and bright in order to warn predators of its chemical defense.
What is aposematic coloration?
Obligate or Facultative Mutualism. Interacting
species derive benefits from each other,
but not fully dependent and so can
survive alone.
What is Facultative Mutualism?
A volcanic eruption in the sea results in the formation of a new island. This is an example of this type of succession.
What is primary succession?
Gross Primary Production is production captured by this.
What is photosynthesis?