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Biome

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A geographical area (abiotic) that has an identifiable group of living forms (biotic).

  • identified by climate
  • more producers–>more consumers(diversity)
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Ecology

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The study of surroundings (house).

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Geographical areas

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Physical constraints biosphere in a given area determine WHAT WILL LIVE THERE. typically look first at plants (bottom of food chain

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How is climate determined?

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How close you are to equator. More sun–more light—more hot.

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Weather vs. climate

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Weather: current conditions
Climate: annual average conditions

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Physical abiotic constraints

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pH
Oxygen
Pressure
Light
Mineral content
Salinity 
Soul type
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Climate abiotic constraints

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Temperature
Precipitation
Humidity
Wind
Sun
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Population

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A group of individuals of the same species living in the same general area.
-will typically rely on same resources, influenced by same environmental factors and are likely to breed with one another

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Change causes ______

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Change at ALL levels

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Ultimate for population

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How they evolved

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Proximate for population

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What’s happening now

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Characterized by dynamic (changing) (4)

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Density, dispersion, population size, demographics

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Characterize by density

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of individuals within a given area

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Characterize by dispersion

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How are they spread out in a given area?

-uniform, random, and clumped (most common, aka patchy, tend to go where resource is.)

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Characterize by population

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How many in a given area

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Demographics

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Vital stats of a population and how they change

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Birth-death model

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Change in population over time
N_t+1=N_t+B-D
N=size of pop/t=time/b=birth rate/d=death rate

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Life-table

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Age specific summary of survival pattern of a population

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Cohort

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Age specific group within a population

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Survivorship curve

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A plot of the proportion or numbers in a cohort still alive at each age.
-leaf graph

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Exponential growth model

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(dN)/(dt)=r_max(N)

d=death rate/time

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Logistic growth model

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(dN)/(dt)=(rN(K-N))/K

K=carrying capacity
d=death rate/time

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Carrying capacity

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of individuals that can be supported within the given area.

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Allee effect

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The fitness of individuals in a small population is less than those individuals in a large population

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______ of organisms will reflect the type of reproduction model seen

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Life histories

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Natural history

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All of the traits an organism exhibits in it’s schedule of reproduction and survival from birth to death (infant-toddler-child) trade-offs btw survival and traits such as frequency of reprod., parental care, # of offspring….(cost/benefit) description of life (reflects evolution)

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Natural selection has molded to basic strategies to……

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Solve the problem of getting an individuals DNA into the future

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R-selected

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Lots of babies like fish

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K-selected

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Fewer young, more parental care and investment

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Density-independent

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Population size is not influenced by size of population (r-grows exponentially)

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Density-dependent

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Point when the population reaches k and levels off

  • factors due to pop size(density) that limits pop growth
  • space, competition(food, mates,resources), disease
  • k(logistic growth)
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Community

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Interacting group of various sp. w/in a given area

  • an assemblage with unity(how they work together/identifiable)
  • focuses on biotic interactions
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Ecosystem

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The sum of all the organisms living w/in its boundaries and all the abiotic factors w/which they interact

  • (smallbig)
  • log vs. forest
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Each species within a system has a specific _____\

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Niche

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Niche

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  • set of environmental tolerances of a sp. which defines where it can live.
  • way a sp. obtains it’s energy and it’s patterns of interactions w/other sp.(it’s role)
  • how it conducts its business (makes its living)
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Energy interactions

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Organize interactions by how they contribute to the flow of energy and materials

  • abiotic
  • consumer resource (trophic interactions)
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Trophic levels

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1) Primary producers (autotrophs)
2) Heterotrophs
- -primary consumers (herbivores)
- -secondary consumers(omnivores)
- -tertiary consumers (carnivores)
- -decomposers(detritivores->dead material)

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Modeling

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Food chain, good web, food pyramid, bio magnification pyramids, 10% rule, trophic cascades

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1st law of thermodynamics

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  • matter/energy cannot be created or destroyed
  • matter cycled/energy flows(lost to heat)
  • therefore we need constant input of energy (sun)
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Second law of thermodynamics

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For every transfer of energy some is going to be lost to heat (10% rule).

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Biomagnification

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As you go from 1 level to another matter builds up (pesticide->algae->fish->eagles eggs were thin and cracked)

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Carbon cycle

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6O[2]+C[6]H[12]O[6]—>6CO[2]+H[2]O

-first part: respiration, burning fossil fuels, decomposition

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GPP

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Gross primary production

-Producers:light energy(J/m^2/yr)——->chemical (g/m^2/yr) (dry biomass)

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NPP

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Net primary production

  • primary consumers
  • NPP=GPP-R[producer]
  • ——-R=energy lost due to respiration

(Typically 1/2 is lost)

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Community

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Populations (diff. species) within a given area interacting.

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Ecological niche

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Considering abiotic/biotic interactions.

-general (I serve food)

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Fundamental niche

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Considering where the species can potentially exist (law of tolerances)
-what type of restaurant (burgers)

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Realized niche

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Where one actually observes the species within the community
-compete with other burgers (charbroiled)

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Interspecific interactions (fundamental niche)

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\+mutualism+
O commensalism+ (cattle bugs)
O amensalism- (elephant travel)
-competition-
\+pred/prey-
\+herbivory-
\+parasitism-
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Law of competitive exclusion principle

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No 2 species will occupy the same niche

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Batesian

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Mimic the bad ( monarch tastes bad, mimics look like monarch)

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Müllarian

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All bad tend to look same (bees, hornets, etc./poisonous frogs)

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Succession

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Series of events in which life comes back (reestablishes itself) in a predictable way
–predictable because set of abiotic conditions tend to be the same

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Primary succession

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No soil

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Secondary succession

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What follows after a disturbance

-soil

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Pioneer species

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First organisms after succession (mosses, lichens)

-r selected because they haven’t evolved for competition so they crash

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Climax community

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Organisms after life stabilizes

  • mostly k selected
  • greatest diversity/ max. Niches filled
  • endures change better than pioneer species because it’s more developed
  • associated with biome
  • dynamic(changing) climate isn’t stable which determines producers
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Shannon’s index of species diversity

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The proportion of individuals in an area indicate their importance to diversity

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Keystone species

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Organism that is vital to a community

  • prairie must have prairie grass
  • can’t have ponds w/o beavers
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Invasive species

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Came in and outcompeted native species

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Exotic species

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Not normally found there (may/may not outcompete–>could coexist)

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Limiting factors

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  • density dependent (biotic)

- density independent (abiotic) catastrophic events

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More diverse communities are found where?

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Towards the equator

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Why is a species absent from an area?

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Look at dispersal and distribution

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What does it mean for a dispersal to be limited?

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Area is inaccessible or not enough time.

  • natural range(where historically originated and lived)
  • species transplants:when a species gets transplanted into another community
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Why species occur where they do: behavior limits distribution

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Habitat selection

-behavior

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Why species occur where they do: biotic factors limit distribution.

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Predation, parasites, competition, disease

-biotic constraints

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Why species occur where they do: abiotic factors limit

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Abiotic constraints (chemical or physical factors)—–>law of tolerances

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