Biotic and Abiotic Factors
What is the pattern of individuals clumping together in groups within a population?
What is clumped dispersion?
In the exponential model, what does "unlimited environment" mean?
What is an environment with unlimited resources?
Which type of reproduction involves an organism reproducing once and then dying?
What is semelparous?
What type of factors affect population growth regardless of the population's size?
What are density-independent factors?
What term refers to the distribution of individuals in different age groups in a population?
Answer: What is age structure?
This term describes the movement of individuals into a population.
What is immigration?
What is the maximum population size an environment can sustain in the logistic model?
What is carrying capacity?
What are traits that maximize reproductive success in stable environments known as?
What are K-selection traits?
In the context of population ecology, what is a metapopulation?
Answer: What is a population of populations, interconnected by migration?
What does "aging demographics" refer to?
Answer: What is a population with a high proportion of elderly individuals?
What demographic tool helps us understand the survival and reproduction rates within a population?
What is a life table?
The rate at which a population grows under ideal conditions is known as what?
What is intrinsic rate of increase?
Organisms with this reproductive strategy produce many offspring, but provide minimal parental care.
What is r-selection?
What kind of factors become more important as a population's size increases?
Answer: What are density-dependent factors?
Which term describes the study of populations, including birth rates, death rates, and migration patterns?
Answer: What is demography?
Which dispersion pattern is characterized by individuals spaced relatively evenly in the population?
What is uniform dispersion?
What type of growth curve represents a population's growth slowing as it approaches its carrying capacity?
What is logistic growth?
What term describes the overall pattern of an organism's life, including reproductive timing and lifespan?
What is life history?
How does the spread of disease in a dense population illustrate density-dependent regulation?
Answer: What is an example of density-dependent regulation?
Which countries are more likely to have "aged demographics"?
Answer: What are developed or industrialized countries?
What describes the proportion/numbers in a cohort still alive at each age?
What is the survivorship curve?
Describe the shape of a logistic growth curve.
What is an "S"-shaped curve?
What is the concept that suggests that life history traits are influenced by the trade-offs an organism faces in allocating resources to growth, reproduction, and survival?
What is the principle of allocation?
What causes density-dependent population regulation to occur?
Answer: Multiple right ones...
EX. ~ What is resource competition (scarcity of resources)?
What is the term used to describe the ecological concept that measures the amount of Earth's resources required to support a particular population's lifestyle and consumption habits?
Answer: What is the ecological footprint?