ch. 7 stuff

Question 1

believed plant communities functioned like a super-organism. Also believed in the climax community (give author)

Answer 1

Clements

Question 2

believe communities functioned more individualistically (give author)

Answer 2

Gleason

Question 3

facilitation, tolerance, inhibition (give author)

Answer 3

Connel

Question 4

dd not believe in super-organisms, but species do function together (give author)

Answer 4

Odum

Question 5

Odum’s developing vs. mature

Answer 5

developing: linear food chain, simple nutrient flow, low spp. diversity
mature: complex food web and nutrient flow, high spp. diversity

Question 6

pulse stability (give author and explanation)

Answer 6

Odum’s term for wetlands which are somewhere between developing and mature. Floods can be pulse force

Question 7

Hydrach succession

Answer 7

open water to upland forest

Question 8

environmental sieve (give author and explanation)

Answer 8

van der Valk. plants are divided into categories defined by certain features that determine where they can occur. The sieve in most freshwater systems is the hydroperiod (draw down and flooding)