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An Ecosystem is a collection of _______ living in a location and the _______ __________.
What is Organism and abiotic components?
100
What is [-/-]
What is Competition?
100
what is the population ecology equation?
N(t)=N(o)e ^(r)(t)
100
Four types of Ecology
What is Organism, population, community and ecosystem ecology
100
What does NPP produce
NPP produces biomass
200
Producers, Consumers, Decomposers are all types of _____
What are Trophic levels?
200
What is a Niche
The range of resources a species is able to use in the conditions it can tolerate
200
what is a Cohort
Group of individuals of the same age that can be followed through time
200
The mechanistic estimation as to how each behavior occurs
What is Proximate Causation?
200
What is an Endemic Species
Any species that is unique to one location and found no where else
300
The total collection of density of life in an area
What is biodiversity?
300
The specialization towards a particular type of resource to minimize competition
What is Resource partitioning?
300
What is the equation for logistic growth
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300
Individuals who are good at ________ when making decisions will survive Ex. Isopods and food
What is Cost benefit analysis?
300
The path of an element/Nutrient as it moves from abiotic systems through trophic levels and back to environments
What is Biogeochemical cycles?
400
What is NPP
Net Primary Productivity- the effective amount of energy fixed by producers available to non producers
400
What is a keystone species?
Species whose presence or absence can have a drastic effect on community structure
400
per capita rate of increase caused by a difference between birth and death
What is instantaneous rate?
400
Nature and Consequences of interactions between species
What is Community Ecology?
400
What is the manni effect
What is mutualism? organisms begin in a mutualistic relationship but then one becomes exploitative and parasitic
500
Name and give examples for 2 threats to biodiversity?
Accelerated extinction Global warming Disturbance on Natural Dynamics Human populations Habitat destruction and fragmentation
500
we predict the composition of a species for a community
What is Community structure
500
Density Dependent factors are usually _____
What is biotic
500
Draw the altruism, reciprocity, spite and Greenbeard chart describe each one as you draw it
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500
The relatitve change in species composition post disturbance over time
What is Succession?