Chapter 2 Test Vocab Flashcards
Community Ecology
Interactions among different species
Cost/Benefit Anaylsis
2 different species can be cataorgized by considering the cost/benefit to each species
Neutral Interactions
No cost or benefit to either
Positive Interactions
Both parties benefit
Positive Negative Interactions
Both experience some cost
ex. Competition
One-Sided Interactions
One benefits, while the other suffers
ex. predation, parasitism, competition
Competition
When 2 or more organisms use a common resource that is in LIMITED SUPPLY
Can be inter/intra specific
Interference Competition
There is a direct interaction between competitors
Exploitative Competation
Indirect, when the limited resource is consumed by one of the competitors
Gause’s Principal
2 species with identical ecological requirements cannot occupy the dame environment
Competitive Exclusion principal
The same as gause’s principal
Diffuse Competition
Compounding cost of low intensities
Exclusion
When ne of the competitors is no longer able to physically exist in the environment in question
Resource Partitioning
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.
Symbiosis
Intimate/protracted association between 2 or more different species
Endosymbiosis
When the association involves on the organisms living within the the other
Mutualism
Both parties benefit
Commensalism
One party benefits and nothing happens to the other
Parasitism
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
Coevolution
Certain traits of each species evolve in response to the traits of the other.
Seed-Dispersers
Animal’s that disperse seeds for trees.
Microparasitisms
Small
Ex. Viruses, Fungi, Bacteria, Protists, and Prions
Macroparasitisms
Large Parasites
Social Parasitism
When one organism is parasitically dependent upon organization of another.
Brood Parasitism
imposing care of eggs/young onto surrogate parents
Klepto Parasitism
Forcible theft of prey by the parasite from the host.
Trophic Ecology
Ecology of Feeding
Predator
An organism that subdues and consumes another living organism as a source of energy
Detritivores
Organisms that consume dead organic material
Scavengers
Animal that consumes dead animals subdued by others.
Decomposers
Organism that breakdown dead organic material into elemental components.
Omnivores
Any organism that consumes material from more then 1 kingdom
Carnivores
Consumes animal tissue and subdue
Cannibals
eat their own kind