6.1
(Habitats, Niches, and Species Interactions)
(Habitats, Niches, and Species Interactions)
Two species cannot occupy the same area
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
6.3 What is..
Community/Ecosystem Diversity
Species Diversity
Genetic Diversity
What are the three different types of Biodiversity?
Ability of an organism to survive and reproduce under circumstances that differ from their optimal conditions
What is tolerance?
succession that occurs in an area in which no trace of a previous community is present
What is primary succesion?
Tick feeding on a dog or cat
a. parasitism
b. commenalism
c. mutalism
What is parasitism?
biodiversity benefits
What is contributions to medicine and agriculture?
Plays a vital and unique role in maintaining structure, stability, and diversity in an ecosytem
Keystone species
What is the defintion for ecological succession?
The defintion for ecological succession is a series of gradual changes that occur in a community following a disturbance.
Difference between a niche and habitat
What is a niche is the physical and biological conditions in which it can survive and reproduce and a habitat is an area of physical and biological environmental factors that affect which organisms can live within it.
Name ecosystem services
What are producing food, cycling nutrients, purifying water, storing carbon, regulating pests, pollinating crops, and buffering the effects of extreme weather events.