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General Ecology
Behavioral Ecology
Population Ecology
Community Ecology
Ecosystem Ecology
100
Mixture of fresh and salt water formed where rivers meet the ocean
What are Estuaries?
100
A highly stereotyped, innate behavior that responds to threatening stimuli.
What is a Fixed Action Pattern?
100
Multiple breeding in a lifetime as a reproductive strategy.
What is Iteoparity?
100
One species decreases in fitness, and one is unaffected.
What is ammensalism?
100
Self-feeders, able to produce their own food.
What are autotrophs?
200
Still or slowly flowing water
What is a Lentic System?
200
A very high form of learning--ability to gain insights and form concepts.
What is cognition?
200
Average # of females produced by a female of a certain age class.
What is age specific fecundity?
200
Species both utilize a resource and the most efficient consumer wins
What is Exploitation competition?
200
All possible pathways of energy flow in an ecosystem
What is a food web?
300
A type of altruism in social groups that have sterile individuals
What is Eusociality?
300
An example of this is the angler fish using it's lure to attract prey.
What is deception in communication?
300
A species with Rapid growth, Good dispersal, and Short life span.
What is r selected species?
300
Recovery of a community after disturbance when all spp + soil/propagules removed
What is primary succession?
300
Measure of how much energy ingested becomes biomass
What is production efficiency?
400
Bottom of a lake or pond
What is Benthic Zone?
400
An example of this is the honey bee waggle dance.
What is a tactile/auditory/olfactory signal?
400
A type of growth in which "r" changes as a function of denisty (i.e. is density dependent)
What is Logistic Growth?
400
Species without defenses resemble those with defenses
What is Batesian Mimicry?
400
Measure of how efficient energy transfer is between trophic levels
What is trophic transfer efficiency?
500
One has trees, one lacks woody plants, and one is stagnant and highly acidic due to decomposition
What are swamps, marshes and bogs?
500
Use of visual references to achieve long distance movement associated with change of seasons.
What is piloting?
500
A type of survivorship in which young survivorship is low, and old survivorship is high.
What is Type 3 survivorship?
500
Draw the graph representing equilibrium theory
Graph
500
Graphic representation of trophic transfer efficiency that depict flow of matter/energy through food chains
What are Eltonian Pyramids?