Biodiversity
This is the number of species within a defined region.
What is species richness?
The grouping of organisms in terms of similarities in morphology, anatomy and biochemistry.
What is classification?
It is the biological process used by autotrophs that converts light energy into chemical energy.
What is photosynthesis?
Logistic growth exhibited by k-strategists produces this shaped curve.
What is an S-curve?
It is present for the start of secondary succession but not primary succession.
What is soil?
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What is four weeks?
A way of naming organisms to have two names a genus and a species name.
What is binomial nomenclature?
The process in which both producers and consumers release carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere.
What is respiration?
When you go out and capture - mark - recapture, you will soon be using this formula to estimate the population from your primary data.
What is the Lincoln index?
It is not the final community in an area, but it is the most stable one that they have had.
What is a climax community?
These abiotic factors that impact the distribution and abundance of organisms.
What are limiting factors?
Non-living factors that affect an organism’s ability to survive.
What is an abiotic factor?
The role and space that an organism fills in an ecosystem, including all its interactions with the biotic and abiotic factors of its environment.
What is an ecological niche?
The size of the population that can be supported indefinitely on the available resources and services of that ecosystem.
What is carrying capacity?
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This refers to the proportions of different species within a particular ecosystem or community.
What is species evenness?
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This principle highlights the intense competition that can occur between species with similar ecological requirements, leading to a dominance of one species and the decline or local extinction of the other.
What is the competitive exclusion principle?
Organisms which have a high growth rate and a low carrying capacity. They grow fast but have minimum life expectancy. They have many small offspring with little parental care.
What is an r-strategist?
It is a tolerant, r-strategist, photosynthesiser that colonises bare ground.
What is a pioneer species?
A tape measure is stretched across the habitat and quadrats or point counts are taken at set distances along the line.
What is a transect?
A group of similar organisms that are capable of sexually interbreeding to produce fertile offspring.
What is a biological species?
The relationship between two species where one species benefit, the other is unaffected.
What is commensalism?
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This is the feature of a pioneer species which allows them to effectively colonise and establish themselves in harsh, barren environments.
What is nitrogen fixation?