Cheat Sheet Flashcards
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Three factors that influence the climate
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1.) Variation in light intensity2.) The angle/tilt of earth3.) Variation in local conditions
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Variation in light intensity
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- Varies by latitude- Equator is warmest because sun’s rays are higher- Rains the most in the tropics becuase sun warms the air and warm air rises, spreads out to the North and South and cools into bands of rain- Air flows to 30 degrees, sinks and wams-Rising air=rain-Sinking air=deserts
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The angle/tilt of earth
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Gives us seasons
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Variation in local conditions
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- More rain in S hemisphere becuase there are more oceans and lakes- Costal Mtns: wind picks up moisture over bodies of water- North slopes: less sunlight, more vegetation- South slopes: more sunlight, less vegetation, drier-Lake effect snow-Adiabatic cooling
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Less predictable global effects on climate
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- El Nino- PDO
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Biomes
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Defined by temperature and rainfall-Tundra-Boreal Forest-Temperate deciduous woodland -Temperate grassland-Hot desert-Cold desert-Tropical evergreen forest
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Tundra
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-Low growing plants-Arctic: permafrost-Alpine: no permafrost
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Boreal forest
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-Long winter, short summer-Long days in summer-Evergreens are favored-Large plants
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Temperate deciduous woodland
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- More diversity and rainfall than boreal- Where we live- Deciduous trees dominate
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Temperate grassland
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- Drought in part of the year- Grasses adapted to grazing and fires
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Hot desert
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- Less precipitation
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Cold desert
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- Vegetation limited- No permafrost- More precipitation than tundra
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Tropical evergreen forest
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- Rainforests- Nutrient poor soil - Epiphytes are common (plants that grow by cliinging to other plants)
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Niche
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The entire range of resources a species needs to survive
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Joseph Connell
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Barnacles (temporal partitioning)
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Robert MacAurthur
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Warblers (niche partitioning)
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Species interactions
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- Competition- Predation-Symbiosis
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Competition
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When two or more similar organisms need same limited resource (-/-)
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Predation
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When one species consumes another (+/-)
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Symbioses
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A long-term interaction of 2 speciesParasitism (+/-)Mutualism (+/+)Commensalism (+,0)Ammensalism (-,0)
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Why is competition hard to see?
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It often happened in the past
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The ghost of competition past
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If competition happened in the past, you can study the relationships today
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How to study competition
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- Experiments (1917 Sir Arthur George Tansley galium experiment)- Comparison of Allopatric and sympatric populations
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Exploitation competition
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One species lowers the resources of another
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Interference Competition
One species prevents the other from gaining access to a resource
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Interspecific
Different species
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Intraspecific
Within the same species
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Sympatric
Species living in close proximity
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Allopatric
Species live apart
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Temporal partitioning
Organisms born at different times of year will not be in competition
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Intraspecific competition can lead to...
less interspecific competition
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True predators
Kill immediately, usually consume all of prey
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Parasitism
Do not (immediately) kill preyExamples: Giardia, mistletoe
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Herbivores
Predatory: whole plant consumedParasitic: Part of plant consumed
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Detrivores
Eating things already dead/non-living (does not impact population sizes)
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Extinction via predation
Lab: Predatory protist and prey protist, predatory eliminates preyIRL: Klamath weed (invasive species), introduced chrysolina beetle which eliminated weed species
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Predators lower prey...
abundance
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Predators can restrict prey distribution
Where prediators limit the range of prey speciesExample: megapode
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Predator/prey cycling
showshoe hare and lynx (more lynx, less hares, next year less lynx, next year more hares, etc.)
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Methods of predator and prey coexistance
- Refuges-Cycling-Predators at low abundance -Generalist predators
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Prey defenses
-Crypsis-Chemical defense-Armor-Behavioral defense-Predator satiation
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Crypsis
Cryptic coloration: camoflaugeObject mimicry: mimics something not edible
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Chemical defense
-Toxicity: most synthesize their own poison, nudibranchs steal poison from other organisms-Aposematic coloring: bright colors to indicate poison-Batsian mimicry: bright colors, no poison -Mullerian mimicry: bright colors, poison, also looks like another poison speciesexample: viceroy and monarch
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Armor
shells, spikes, etc. example: armadillos, porcupines clams
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Behavioral defense
- Alarm calling- Distraction displays - Running- Herds
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Predator satiation
Timing reproduction so all young are produced in short period of time (higher % of survival)
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Types of hunting
- Ambush- Stalking- Pursuit
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Coevolution
When a species evolves due to interactions with another species
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Parasitism (+/-)
- Ectoparasites: outside organism- Endoparasites: inside organism *can have complex life cycles*
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Mutualism (+/+)
"Cleaner" fish and "customer fish"- Trophic (food/food)- Defensive (food/defense)- Dispersive (food/dispersal)
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Communities are formed from...
groups of species interactions
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Diversity
The combination of speies richness and evenness
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Species richness
of species present
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Evenness
relative abundance of species
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Species richness and area
One area can have more diversity or evenness than the other (even with the same # of species in each area)
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Species richness and habitat number
Species richness increases with the area of land surveyed (more habitats, more specialized and varied species)
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Latitudinal gradient in species diversity
Low lat- Near equatorHigh lat- Near poles
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Hypotheses on the gradient
- Climate stability- More competition- More predation- Increased energy- Evolutionary time
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Climate stability hypotheses
- More seasonality at higher latitude- Seasons are disturbances making it harder to survive- BUT tropics with variable rainfall have same species richness as tropics with stable rainfall
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More competition hypothesis
- Low latitude: more resources- Tighter niche packing: smaller niches- More species, BUT they must be specialists for this to work
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More predation hypothesis
- More species because there is more predation, which reduces competition and increases diversity (BUT very circular argument)
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Increased energy hypothesis
*Ecological Hypothesis*- Increased productivity (more plants (because of more sun)→ more herbivores→ more predators)-Overwintering tolerance (no winter related deaths)-Ambient energy (less need for regulating body temp against extreme temps, can use extra energy to reproduce)BUT this hypothesis doesn't really answer the question at hand
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Evolutionary time
*evolutionary hypothesis*- Species in the tropics forced to respond to climate shift and were pushed into small tropical land? (eocene-miocene climate shift (temps become closer to what they are today))- The older more basal groups = more common in the tropics and newer more derived (evolved later) = more common towards the poles.
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Niche conservatism
Example: spruces are able to move furrther south in the past, climate changed (warmed)→ spruces rage decreased (went further up the mountains, conserved their niche) (dependent species followed)
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Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO)
Shift in surface temps in northern pacific (over 20-30 yrs) fluctuate between warm and cool phases (makes predicting climate more difficult)
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Miller + Urey
Wanted to recreate atomspheric conditions when life began
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Linnaeus
nomeclature
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Anaximander
new species come from existing species
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Hutton
founder of modern geology (earth is older than we think)
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Smith
Wealth of nations, competition keeps environment healthy
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Lamark
Giraffes
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Malthus
Population inc. faster than food supply=competition
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Cuvier
Catastrophism
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Lyell
Past is key to present, small changes
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Darwin partner
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Mendel
Peas
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Crick, Watson, Franklin
DNA
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Grants
Finches
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Precambrian
longest era
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Paleozoic
- Trilobites- Archaeocyathids (sponges)- Carpet moss-Tiktaalik
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Cambrian
Cambrian explosionEnds w/ permian extinction(great dying, 90% species gone)
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Mesozoic
age of reptiles and mammals- Morganucodon wat. ends with K-T extinction (dinos)
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Cenozoic
current era
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Hadean
no water, air, life- stromatolites (unicell)- archea (viroids)
