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Chapter 2 Test Vocab Flashcards

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Community Ecology

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Interactions among different species

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Cost/Benefit Anaylsis

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2 different species can be cataorgized by considering the cost/benefit to each species

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Neutral Interactions

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No cost or benefit to either

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Positive Interactions

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Both parties benefit

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Positive Negative Interactions

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Both experience some cost
ex. Competition

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One-Sided Interactions

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One benefits, while the other suffers
ex. predation, parasitism, competition

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Competition

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When 2 or more organisms use a common resource that is in LIMITED SUPPLY
Can be inter/intra specific

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Interference Competition

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There is a direct interaction between competitors

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Exploitative Competation

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Indirect, when the limited resource is consumed by one of the competitors

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Gause’s Principal

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2 species with identical ecological requirements cannot occupy the dame environment

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Competitive Exclusion principal

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The same as gause’s principal

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Diffuse Competition

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Compounding cost of low intensities

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Exclusion

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When ne of the competitors is no longer able to physically exist in the environment in question

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Resource Partitioning

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When competitors partition the common resource into different, specific resources. Not sharing,
Requires a change in a trait of 1 or both competitors
Character displacement-morphology is changed.

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Symbiosis

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Intimate/protracted association between 2 or more different species

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Endosymbiosis

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When the association involves on the organisms living within the the other

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Mutualism

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Both parties benefit

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Commensalism

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One party benefits and nothing happens to the other

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Parasitism

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One acquires nutrients from 1 party to enhance fitness. Doesn’t want to kill its host as it feeding, but may happen. Can be symbiotic

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Coevolution

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Certain traits of each species evolve in response to the traits of the other.

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Seed-Dispersers

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Animal’s that disperse seeds for trees.

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Microparasitisms

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Small
Ex. Viruses, Fungi, Bacteria, Protists, and Prions

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Macroparasitisms

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Large Parasites

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Social Parasitism

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When one organism is parasitically dependent upon organization of another.

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Brood Parasitism

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imposing care of eggs/young onto surrogate parents

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Klepto Parasitism

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Forcible theft of prey by the parasite from the host.

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Trophic Ecology

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Ecology of Feeding

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Predator

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An organism that subdues and consumes another living organism as a source of energy

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Detritivores

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Organisms that consume dead organic material

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Scavengers

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Animal that consumes dead animals subdued by others.

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Decomposers

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Organism that breakdown dead organic material into elemental components.

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Omnivores

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Any organism that consumes material from more then 1 kingdom

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Carnivores

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Consumes animal tissue and subdue

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Cannibals

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eat their own kind

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Herbivores

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Eat plant material

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Prey

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An organism thats consumed by another organism

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Lotka-Volterra Predation Model

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Dependent on predator prey dynamic are the only driving force regulating populations
Populations will ocellate in a cycle over time.

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Plant-Herbivore intereactions

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Either parts or entire plant are consumed with a negative effect on the fitness of the plant.

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Herbivore-carnivore intereactions

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Where a carnivore consumes a herbivore.

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Plant defenses

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Noxious Chemicals, Mechanical, Repellents, Reproductive Inhibition, Predator Satiation, Defensive Associations.

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Succession

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By precenting certain plants from establishing ecosystem functions, function of plants will be determined by their composition and fitness.

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Noxious Chemicals

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Quantitative: Substance ingested in large amount the prevent digestion.
Qualitative: Toxic substance that when ingested in small amounts cause death

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Mechanical Defenses

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Thorns, Spikes, conifers, palms

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Repellents

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Substances that repel herbivores without indigestion

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Reproductive inhibition

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Hormone derivatives the prevent sexual development

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Predator satiation

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Production of additional biomass to offset loss to herbivores

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Defensive associations

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When potable plants hang out with un potable plants

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Warning colors

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Advertise that they are unpotable or poisonous

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camouflage

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blending in with the environmental to avoid detection

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Mimicry

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Bastesian mimicry a potable organism mimic a unpotable one.
Mullerian Mimicry: 2 or more different unpotable prey mimic each other

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Armour/Weapons

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Physical Protection

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Intimidation

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Scare predators into not eating you

53
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Power in numbers

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overwhelm predators and reduce chance of selection

54
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Ambush

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sit and wait

55
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Stalk/Trap

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animal pursuit

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Search/Pursue

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run em down and eat em

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Cryptic coloration/Mimicry

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look like another organism to get closer to prey

58
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Hunting adaptations

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Teeth/Claws, heightened sensory capabilities, morphemically booster.

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Cannibalism

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Eating one’s own species

60
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Food chain/webs

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Food chain: a linear diagram that models true flow of energy among different organisms
Food Web: a diagram that models the flow of energy among organisms by more than one food chain.

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Source food webs

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Links are drawn up upward from a species that is a basal resource

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Sink Food webs

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links are drawn downward from a species that is considered a top predator

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Community Food web

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Connects everything to everything.

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Top Down Model

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Predation controls community structure, populations trends alternation from one level to another

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Bottom up model

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Nutrients control community structure as they control primary producers. Population trends are all the same

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Richness

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The number of different types of components.

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Evenness

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The relative abundance of all the different types of components

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Biodiversity

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The true richness and evenness among organisms and the ecological complexes in which they occur.

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Structured Diversity

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The richness and evenness among different types of components in a system

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Functional Diversity

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Richness and evenness of different roles played by all the different components within a system.

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Ecological Redundancy

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2 or more different species perform a similar function

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Genetic Diversity

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Richness and evenness of genotypes within a particular population or species.

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Shannon-Weiner diversity Function

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Measure of uncertainty

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H

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Index of species diversity

75
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S

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Number of species

76
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P1, P2, P3…

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Proportion of total belonging in the species

77
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Diversity-Stability Hypothesis

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Linear Line

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Rivet Hypothesis

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Sharp drop off, but constant growth

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Redundancy Hypothesis

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Sharp drop off with a plateau

80
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Idiosycratic Hypothesis

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All over the place because one model cannot describe all of ecology.

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Habitat Selection

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Individual organism select environments where they can achieve fitness

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Habitat

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The environment in which the life needs of an organism are met

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Macro Habitat

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Overall habitat of a community

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Mircohabitat

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A portion of the macrohabitat that directly encountered by an individual or population of a given species.

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Suitability

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Breath, Drink, Acquire Nutrients, Grow, hide, Move, Reproduce.

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