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Competition
Predator-Prey Dynamic
Biotic Potentioal and Environmental resistance
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Succession
100
Regulates an ecosystem from the bottom up
What is competition
100
Herbivores are regulated by
What are predators
100
The ability of populations to increase
What is biotic potential
100
Allow for species to live in a new environment because of changes made
What are adaptations
100
The transition from one biotic community to another
What is ecological or natural succession
200
When different species compete for the same resource
What is interspecific competition
200
Agents that carry parasites from one host to another
What are vectors
200
Survival through the early growth stages to become part of the breeding population
What is recruitment
200
One species living in a certain area
What is unbalalnced herbivory
200
When pioneer species grow, making it possible for other species to take place
What is facilitation
300
When the same species compete for the same resources
What is intraspecific competition
300
When plants are eaten faster than they can grow
What is overgrazing
300
The two reproductive strategies in the reproductive world
What is produce massive numbers of young, and leave them to the wild, or have a lower number and stay with and protect them
300
Factors that contribute to environmental resistance
What diseases, lack of food
300
If an area has not been occupied before, and is initially invaded
What is primary succession
400
Who has difficulty claiming territory in a spcies?
Who are the younger generations
400
A species who has a crucial role in maintaining the ecosystem biotic structure
What is a keystone species
400
The combination of all biotic and abiotic factors that may limit a poopulation's increase
What is environmental resistance
400
Adaption, migration, extinction
What are the three options when a species is faced with pressure to change
400
The ability to come back after destruction of an ecosystem
What is resiliance
500
Where trees grow along waterways, because elsewhere is too dry
What is a riparian woodlands
500
One of the factors contributing to the fluctuation of population fluctuation
What is shortage of vegetation
500
The number of individuals per unit area.
What is population density
500
The four key variables among species that will affect whether or not a population of individuals is likely to survive in new conditions
What are: geographical distribution, specialization to a habitat, genetic variation, reproductive rate relative to environmental change
500
An area that has been cleared by fire or humans, and is invaded afterwards experiences
What is secondary succession