Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services
Using water from a lake is an example of what ecosystem service?
What is provisioning?
A bird flying south for the winter is an example of this type of adaptation.
What is behavioral adaptation?
What are invasive species?
An organism that colonizes barren land is called this.
What is a pioneer species?
The number of different species found in an ecosystem.
What is species richness?
Organisms adapt to fit this.
What is their environment?
Range of conditions that an organism can endure before injury or death occurs.
Ecological tolerance
An organism that gives clues to the health of an ecosystem.
What is an indicator species?
A disruption in an ecosystem can cause a large loss of biodiversity leading to this.
What is a population bottleneck?
A natural disruption that occurs with no set frequency on any scale of time.
What is random?
Islands are made up of these types of organisms due to low diversity in resources.
What are specialist species?
Recolonization of an ecosystem after a wildfire.
What is secondary succession?
Loss of habitat leads to the loss of this type of species first.
What is a generalist species?
Sea level has varied over time due to the melting of this.
What is glacial ice?
_________ to the mainland has an effect on the biodiversity of an island.
What is location/proximity?
The most biodiverse and active an ecosystem would be is called what?
What is the climax community?
The biome with the highest level of biome diversity.
What is the rainforest?
The giraffe's long neck is an example of this.
What is a structural adaptation?
This is a way that organisms get to an island.
What is flying, floating, humans, ect.
An organism that plays a viral role in the ecosystem.
What is a keystone species?