Dynamics Flashcards
What’s a community?
It’s a group made up of different populations that share the same habitat.
What’s biodiversity?
The different types of life
What’s the biodiversity of a habitat?
All living things.
What 2 things make up biodiversity?
- Species richness
2. Relative abundance
What’s species richness?
The total number of DIFFERENT species in the community.
What’s relative abundance?
The number of each species you see in a community, (walking through the forest)
What makes for high biodiversity?
There has to be a lot of different species and there has to be relatively the same amount of each species.
What are interspecific interactions?
Relationships between individuals of different species.
What are the 4 types of interspecific species?
- Competition
- Predation
- Mutualism
- Commensalism
What’s symbiosis?
Living together
What’s competition?
Its when species depend on the same limited resources so they fight for it.
What can limit the presence of species?
Strong competition.
What’s predation?
When one species consumes another for food.
Predation includes _______, _______ and ________.
Herbivores, carnivores, and omnivores.
Populations of _______ influence population of prey, and vise versa.
Predators.
