Chapter 2 Flashcards
Who termed the term Oecologie?
Earnest Haeckel
Who discovered that similar climates and similar vegetation?
Carl Willdenow
Who also did Plant associations on a smaller scale and had a 5-year. journey in the tropics
Alexander Humbolt
How do we study life in the rainforest today?
Climb Trees
How did we study life in the tropics in the Past?
Chopped Trees down
What type did Ecology originally start with?
Plant Geography
What is Animal Ecology study? (3)
Animal Population, Dynamics, Behavior etc.
What does Physiological Ecology Apply to? (2)
Plants and Animals
Who came up with the Law of the Minimum?
Leibig
Who came up with the concept of
“Too much of a good thing””
Blackman
Who came up with the concept of
“Law of Tolerance”?
Shelford
What does the Law of Minimum state?
An organisms growth is limited but its resources
When phosphates were not removed from the water’s waste plant and dumped in Lake Erie, what happened?
Increase in Algal Blooms and Biomass
In Shelford’s Law of Tolerance what are some limiting environmental Factors? (3)
Resources, Temperatures and Water etc.
In Shelford’s Law of Tolerance is the range fixed?
Not Fixed
What is Acclimatization?
An Organisms short-term response to the environment. No Genetic changes
Define Allopathic in Ecology?
Physically Isolated
Define Sympatric in Ecology?
Two species share the same area
Who thought that the population was growing so fast that not everyone would survive?
Malthus
Who came up the idea of the Survival of the Fittest?
Darwin
Who also came up with the same idea as Dawin’s “Survival of the Fittest”
Alfred Wallace
Who founded Behavioral Ecology?
Konrad Lorenz
Who came up with Ecosystem Ecology?
Linderman
Who published the book “Tropic-Dynamic Aspect of Ecology?”
Linderman
Who studied the energy flow thru trophic levels of a lake?
Linderman
Who came up with the concept of Wildlife/Applied Ecology?
Aldo Leopold
In the Kaibab Forest Deer example, what happened to the Deer Population?
Deer reached carrying capacity because the Population outgrow food resources
Who wrote the Book Silent Spring?
Rachel Carson
What happened to the Bird Population when DDT was used?
Declined
How did the Bird Population become affected with DDT?
Eating the Insects affected by DDT
How did was the Offspring of Birds affected?
Eggs did not hatch, causing a decline in species
What type of bugs did DDT Kill?
All Bugs
What type of Ecology was a Rachel Carson associated with?
Applied Ecology
What is Applied Ecology
How organisms interact with their environment and how we can solve real-world problems
What is a type of Applied Ecology?
Conservation (Zoos, Aquariums etc.)
Who came up with the concept of Theoretical Ecology? (2)
Robert May and Robert MacArthur
What does Molecular Ecology identify? (2)
Inbreeding and species/subspecies Identification
What are the two things Enviromental DNA looks for?
Pathogens and Species DNA in soil or water sample
What are the pros of releasing Neonates in the Wild? (3)
Cheaper, never get used to Captivity and matches what normally happens in the wild
What are the Con’s of releasing Neonates in the wild? (2)
Low survival rate due to predators and limited to the food it can eat
What are the Pros of Head Start snakes? (3)
Eat wider range of food, Fewer predators and closer to being reproduction
What are the Con’s to Head-Start snakes? (2)
Expensive and used to life in captivity
A group of organisms of same species at time and place, interbreeding is known as a?
Population
A Subset of a Population is known as a?
Sample
Data that is not organized is called?
Nominal
Data that is organized in categories is called?
Ordinal (Small, Medium and Large)
Data that is counted (Number of people in a room) is called?
Discrete
Data that can be measured (Can be any value) is called?
Continuous
What is a soft release?
Gradually releasing the animal into the wild
What is a Hard Release?
Releasing the animal directly into the wild
What is a Pro of a Hard Release for a Head-Start?
Cheaper
What is a Con of a Soft release of a Head-Start?
Cost
What is a Pro of a Hard release of a Head-Start?
Time to Adjust to the environment
