Predator-Prey Cycles
What animal regulates sea urchins, in turn protecting kelp forests?
What is the sea otter
Bob Paine coined this term for species that disproportionately affect ecosystems?
What is a keystone species
Which scientist studied competition between barnacles in the intertidal zone?
Who is Joseph Connell
This scientist worked with wild dogs to restore the ecosystem in East Africa
Paola Bouley
In the Serengeti, what large herbivore controls grassland ecosystems?
What is the wildebeest
What keystone species did Jim Estes discover
What is a sea otter
Who demonstrated that predators regulate prey populations in tropical forests
Who is John Terborgh
Who is Robert Paine
These predators regulate hare populations in Canadian food webs?
What is the lynx
What is the keystone species in the Serengeti's population?
What is a wildebeest
These two factors were studied by Krebs in the snowshoe hare cycle
What are food and predation
What are three tropical-level interactions in the "Impact of Food..." paper
What are plants (grass), herbivores (hares), and predators (mammals, avians, and reptiles)
What is the relationship between Lynx and Snowshoe hares?
What is asymmetrical relationship
What is the term where one species affects another by interfering?
What is interspecific competition
What are the three causes of reproduction collapse for all experimental groups?
What are food limitations, changing habits to low-nutrition areas, psychological hindrances
What is the study of barnacle competition and spatial ecology