Biodiversity
This type of species can live under a wide range of biotic and abiotic conditions.
What is a generalist species?
The ability to remain unchanged when being subjected to disturbance is called this.
What is resistance?
There is a struggle for this among organisms.
What is existence?
This type of succession starts with a lifeless area.
What is primary succession?
In bays and estuaries, this is the most common limiting factor
What is salinity?
This type of species can live under a narrow range of biotic and abiotic conditions.
What is a specialist species?
This is the meaning of anthropogenic change.
What is human caused?
There are these variations in living organisms.
What are physical and behavioral?
This type of succession starts with only soil present.
What is secondary succession?
This type of species is more vulnerable to invasive species, especially on islands.
What are specialist species?
With regard to genetic and species diversity levels (levels being high or low), this ecosystem would respond best to disruption.
What is one with both high genetic and species diversity?
The ability and rate of an ecosystem to recover from a disturbance and return to its pre-disturbed state is called this.
What is resilience?
Organisms with higher this are more likely to survive.
What is fitness?
A pioneer species is defined as this.
What is a species that can colonize new areas rapidly and grow well in full sunshine.
This type of resilience does not aid in recovery of an ecosystem.
What is unhelpful resilience?
What is species richness?
This type of resilience aids in recovery of an ecosystem.
What is helpful resilience?
Over time, this will ensure that certain characteristics appear more and more often as they are passed through generations.
What is natural selection?
A climax community can be described as this.
What is a stable group of plants and animals that is the end result of their succession process?
This causes animals with some traits to be killed while others with different traits survive.
What is selective pressure?
The abundance of individuals within each species present is termed this.
What is species evenness?
In the event of frequent large disruptions to an ecosystem, the one that is most (resistant / resilient) will be more likely to survive and thrive.
What is resilient?
What is ancestor?
An indicator species can be described as this.
What is a species that gives early warning signs of damage or danger to a community.
A keystone species can be described as this.
What is a species whose activities have a particularly significant role in determining community structure?