Variation
An environmental condition that decreases physiological processes, which in turn might reduce fitness.
What is stress?
The timing, magnitude, and location of events in an individual's life relating to its growth, development, survival, and reproduction.
What is life history?
The presence or absence of organisms.
What is distribution?
A group of interbreeding individuals of a single species inhabiting a specific area at a particular time.
What is population?
Factors that limit population size regardless of the population's density.
What is density-independent limitation?
The ability to withstand a range of environmental conditions.
What is tolerance?
A single reproductive event that is often fatal during a lifetime.
What is semelparity?
The number of individuals per unit area.
Describe changes in abundance through time.
What is population dynamics?
When the rate of population growth increases as population density increases.
What is positive density-dependent limitation?
Genetic change of a population in response to natural selection.
What is adaptation?
Multiple reproductive events throughout a lifetime.
What is iteroparity?
Species that have a large geographic range but are locally rare.
What is cosmopolitan?
As population size increases, growth rate increases.
What is a positive feedback?
An abundance at which the population will remain if unperturbed.
What is equilibrium?
The ability of a single genotype to produce multiple phenotypes.
What is phenotypic plasticity?
High performance in one facet results in low in another.
What is tradeoff?
Species that are in a single location but are locally common.
What is endemic?
What is doubling time?
The maximum number of individuals that an environment can support.
What is carrying capacity?
Reversible phenotypic changes in response to environmental conditions.
What is acclimation?
Organisms that begin producing copious, well-endowed offspring immediately after birth and continue to do so throughout an infinitely long time.
What is a Darwinian Demon?
Movement from one population to another.
What is dispersal?
Discrete exponential population growth.
What is geometric growth?
The point on a sigmoidal growth curve at which the population has its highest growth rate.
What is inflection point?