Population Properties and Dynamics
The number of individuals that the population contains
Population Size
Study of "House"/ Habitat
Ecology
Autotrophs that capture energy and use it to make organic molecules
Producers
Relationships where both organisms derive some benefit
Mutualism
Communities proceed through predictable series of stages until it reaches a stable end point called ______
Climax Community
How crowded a population is
Population Density
Quality as interconnectedness
Interdependence
Bacteria carry out ______ in which they use energy stored in inorganic molecules to produce carbohydrates
Chemosynthesis
One organism benefits while the other get no benefit or harm and one organism is harmed while the other is not harmed or helped
Amensalism and Commensalism
Species of organisms that predominate early in succession
Pioneer Species
Spatial distribution of individuals in the population
Dispersion, ex. Clumped, Uniform, Random
Thin volume of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life
Biosphere
New organic material that has been produced in an ecosystem
Biomass
Parasites that live inside their host and parasites that remain outside their host
Ectoparasite and Endoparasite
Development of a community in an area that has not supported life previously and sequential replacement of species that follows disruption of an existing community
Primary and Secondary succession
The rate of births in a population
Growth Rate
Includes all of the organisms and the nonliving environment in a particular place
Ecosystem
Rate at which biomass acumulates
Net Primary Productivity
A number of species in a community and the relative abundance of each species
Species Richness and Evenness
Two or more distasteful or dangerous organisms look alike and one species, usually harmless, resembles a more dangerous species
Mullerian Mimicry and Batesian Mimicry
How long, on average, an individual is expected to live
Life expectancy
Interacting organisms living in an area, and all members of a species that live in one place at a time.
community and population
Rate at which producers in an ecosystem capture the energy of sunlight by producing organic compounds
Gross Primary Productivity
Area is clearly limited by geography
Species-area effect
Events that change communities and tendency of a community to maintain relatively constant conditions
Stability and Disturbances