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Community Ecology Flashcards

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Biological community

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A group of populations of different species that live close enough to interact

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Interspecific interactions

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Interactions between different species (competition, predation, mutualism)

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Interspecific competition

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-/- interacting where different species compete for resources

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Competitive exclusion

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When interspecific competition leads to one species being eliminated

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Resource partitioning

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The difference in niches that enables similar species to coexist

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Character displacement

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Evolution so similar species don’t inhabit the same ecological niche

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Exploitation

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General term for any +/- interaction

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Animal warning coloration

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Aposematic colouration

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Camouflage

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Cryptic colouration

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A harmless species mimics a harmful one

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Batesian mimicry

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Two or more harmful species resemble each other

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Müllerian mimicry

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Two types of defenses from Predators

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Mechanical defense (spines)
Chemical defense

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Mutualism

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A +/+ interaction between different species

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Commensalism

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A +/0 interaction between species

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Why is commensalism rare?

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One species rarely doesn’t affect the other, they usually do even if just a little bit.

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Trophic structure

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The feeding relationships between organisms

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Food web

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Food chains linked together

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Energetic hypothesis

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The length of the fold chain is limited by the inefficiency of the energy transfer. Only about 10% goes up.

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The decompsers are also called…

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The detritivores

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Why are detritivores important

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Help recycle chemicals back to the primary producers

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Production efficiency

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The percent of energy stored in assimilated food that is not used for respiration

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Trophic efficiency

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The percentage of production transfered from one trophic level to the next

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