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Chapter 41: Species Interactions Flashcards

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What effects can interactions in a community have on the species involved?

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they can help, harm or have no effect

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What characterize biological communities

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diversity and trophic structure

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What does disturbance influence?

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species diversity and composition

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What does biogeographic factors affect?

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community diversity

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How are pathogens structured?

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locally and globally

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What is a biological community?

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a group of populations of different species living close enough to interact

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What are interspecific interactions?

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The interactions between individuals of different species living in the same community

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What type of interspecific interaction is competition?

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What type of interspecific interaction is predation?

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What type of interspecific interaction is herbivory?

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What type of interspecific interaction is parasitism?

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What type of interspecific interaction is mutualism?

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What type of interspecific interaction is commensalism?

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When does interspecific competition occur?

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individuals of different species compete for a resource that limits the survival and reproduction of each species (food space, mates)

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What is competitive exclusion?

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when two species are vying for a resource, eventually the one with the slight reproductive advantage will eliminate the other

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What is an ecological niche?

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the sum of biotic and abiotic resources that an organism uses its environment.

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What is an organism’s niche?

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its ecological role - how it fits into an ecosystem

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When can two species cannot coexist permanently in a community?

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if their niches are identical

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What is resource partitioning?

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the differentiation of niches that enables similar species to coexist in a community

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What is a fundamental niche?

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the niche potentially occupied by that species

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What is a realized niche?

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the portion of its fundamental niche that the species actually occupies

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What is character displacement?

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the tendency for characteristics to diverge more in geographically overlapping areas than in geographic isolated areas?

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What is predation?

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the interaction between species in which one species eats another

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What is the consumer called in predation?

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the predator

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What is the one eaten called in predation?

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the prey

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What is cryptic coloration?

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camouflage that makes prey difficult to see

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What is aposematic coloration?

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animals that have effective chemical defenses often have bright colors that act as a warning to others

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What is batesian mimicry?

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when one harmless species mimics a harmful species to which it is not closely related

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What is mullein mimicry?

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when two or more harmful species resemble each other and get the added advantage by having greater # of individuals

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What is herbivory?

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the interaction where an organism eats parts of a plant or algae.

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Give two ways in which plants defend against predators

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Chemical toxins, spines and thornes

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What is symbiosis?

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the interaction in which individuals of two or more species live in direct contact with one another

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What is parasitism?

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the symbiotic relationship where one organism, the parasite derives its nourishment from the host which is harmed in the process

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What are endoparasites?

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parasites that live inside of their hosts

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What are ectoparasites?

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parasites that live and feed on the outside of their host

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What do parasites affect in their host population?

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survival, reproduction and density

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What is mutualism?

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a symbiotic relationship that benefits both species

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What is commensalism?

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a symbiotic relationship that benefits one of the species but neither harms nor helps the other

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What is species diversity?

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the variety of different kinds of organisms that make up the community

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What is species richness?

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the number of different species in the community

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What is relative abundance?

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the proportion each species represent of all of the individuals

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What is biomass?

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the total mass of all organisms in a habitat

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What is trophic structure?

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the feeding relationships that exist between organisms in a community. Each organism occupies a trophic level based on their main food source

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What is a food chain?

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the transfer of food energy up the trophic levels

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Who are on the bottom of the food chain?

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primary producers

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Who eat primary producers?

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primary consumers

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Who eat primary producers?

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secondary consumers

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Who eat secondary consumers?

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tertiary consumers

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Who eat tertiary consumers?

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quaternary consumers

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What is a food web

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a diagram of the trophic relationships of a community (linking multiple food chains together)

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What does the food web show?

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the flow of energy and nutrients through an ecosystem through a variety of possible paths

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What are dominant species?

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species that are the most abundant or that collectively have the highest biomass

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What are keystone species

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species who exert strong control on community structure by their pivotal ecological niches

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What is stability?

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a community tendency to reach and maintain a relatively constant composition of species

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What does a disturbance do?

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changes a community by removing organisms from it or altering resource availability

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What does the immediate disturbance hypothesis state?

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that moderate levels of disturbance foster greater species diversity than do high or low levels of disturbance

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What is ecological succession?

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transitions in species composition in a certain area over ecological time

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What is primary succession?

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when succession begins in a virtually lifeless area where soil has not yet formed

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What is a pioneer species?

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the first species to colonize a new habit

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What is secondary succession?

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succession that occurs when an existing community has been cleared by a disturbance that leaves the soil intat

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Most parries experience regular fires, typically every few years. If these disturbances were relatively modest, how would the species diversity of a prairie likely be affected if no burning occurred for 100 years? Why?

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low level of disturbance ==> diversity would be expected to decline as competitively dominant species gain sufficient time to exclude less competitive species

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How does latitude effect diversity of a community?

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plant and animal life are generally more abundant and diverse in the tropics

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How does are effect community diversity?

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if all other factors are held equal, the larger the geographic area of a community, the more species it has in it

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why do islands provide excellent opportunities for studying the biogeographic factors that affect the species diversity of communities?

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because of their isolation and limited size

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What two factors determine the number of species on an island?

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the rate at which new species immigrate to the island and the rate at which new species become extinct

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What two features of an island effect the rates?

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size and distance from the mainland

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What is the island equilibrium model?

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small islands generally have lower immigration rates than large islands and higher extinction rates; the farther an island is from the mainland, the higher the rate of extinction

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How would you expect the richness of birds on islands to compare with the richness of snakes and lizards? Why?

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Birds disperse to islands more often than snakes/lizards so they should have greater richness

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