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Ecology Flashcards

1
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What is population defined by?

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Size, density, and dispersion

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Size

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Total number of individuals in a population: births, deaths, immigration, emigration

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Density

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Number of individuals per unit area or volume

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Dispersion

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Pattern of spacing of individuals: clumped, uniform random spacing

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5
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Biotic potential

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The maximum rate at which a population could increase under ideal conditions

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6
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What factors influence a population’s biotic potential?

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  • Age at which reproduction begins
  • Life span capable of reproducing
  • Number of reproductive periods in lifetime
  • Number of offspring capable at 1 time
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7
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Carrying capacity(K)

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The maximum that the environment can support

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r-strategists

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  • Reproduce rapidly when uncrowded and resources are vast
  • Many, small young
  • Little parenting
  • Rapid maturation
  • reproduce once
  • Insects
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9
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K-strategists

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  • Maximize population size near the carrying capcity
  • Few, large young
  • Intensive parenting
  • slow maturation
  • Reproduce many times
  • Mammals
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Limiting factors

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  • Limit population growth

- Density-dependent factors and Density-independent factors

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Density-dependent factors

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  • Increase directly as the population density increases

- Competition for food, buildup of wastes, predation, disease

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12
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Density-independent factors

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  • Occurence is unrelated to the population density

- Natural disasters

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13
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Population interactions

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Competition, predation, parasitism, mutualism, commensalism

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14
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G. F. Gause

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Competitive exclusion principle

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Competitive exclusion principle

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-2 species can’t coexist in a community if they share a niche, if they compete for the same resources

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What happens if 2 species share the same niche in a community?

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  • extinction
  • Evolve through natural selection to exploit different resources - resource partitioning
  • character displacement(divergence in adaption)
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17
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Character displacement

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adaptive radiation

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18
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Resource partitioning

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Evolve through natural selection to exploit different resources

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19
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Passive defenses against predators

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  1. Aposematic coloration
  2. Batesian mimicry
  3. Mullerian mimicry
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Aposematic coloration

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Bright coloration of poisonous animals is a warning that predators should avoid them

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Batesian mimicry

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  • Copycat coloration

- Harmless animal mimics the coloration of a poisonous animal

22
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Mullerian mimicry

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2 or more poisonous species resemble eachother and predators learn to avoid any prey with that appearance

23
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Detritivores

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-Animals that feed on organisms that have died and decomposed into organic matter(detritus)

24
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detritus

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decomposed organic matter

25
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Productivity

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The rate at which organic matter is created by producers

26
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Gross primary productivity

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The amount of energy converted to chemical energy by photosynthesis per unit time in an ecosystem

27
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NEt primary productivity

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The gross primary productivity minus the energy used by the producers for respiration

28
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Biological magnification

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Organisms occupying higher trophic levels have greater concentration of accumulated toxins stored in their bodies

29
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Primary ecological succession

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Rebuilding of ecosystem in a lifeless area where soil has been removed

30
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What is the essential and dominant characteristic of primary ecological succesion?

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soil building

31
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Eutrophication

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  • Disruption of freshwater ecosystems
  • Runoff from sewage and manure increase nutrients in lakes and cause excessive growth
  • Organic material accumulates on the bottom, reduces the depth
  • Detritivores use up oxygen as they decompose organic matter
32
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Acid Rain

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  • Caused by pollutants in the air from combustion of fossil fuels
  • Nitrogen and sulfur pollutants cause pH of rain be less than 5.6
33
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Greenhouse effect

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  • global warming
  • Burning of fossil fuels caused the concentrations of CO2 in the air to increase
  • CO2 and water vapor absorb infrared radiation reflecting off Earth, and temp rise
34
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Chlorofluorocarbons

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Chemicals used for refrigerants and aerosol cans

35
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Depletion of Ozone Layer

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  • Accumulation of chlorofluorocarbons formed a hold in the ozone layer
  • more ultraviolet light reach Earth, increase of skin cancer
36
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Decomposer

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-absorb most breakdown products and recycle nutrients back to the soil to nourish plants

37
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Diatoms

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Photosynthetic protists in the ocean

38
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Phytoplankton

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algae and photosynthetic bacteria in aquatic environments

39
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Primary ecological succession

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Rebuilding of ecosystem in a lifeless area where soil has been removed

40
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What is the essential and dominant characteristic of primary ecological succesion?

A

soil building

41
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Eutrophication

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  • Disruption of freshwater ecosystems
  • Runoff from sewage and manure increase nutrients in lakes and cause excessive growth
  • Organic material accumulates on the bottom, reduces the depth
  • Detritivores use up oxygen as they decompose organic matter
42
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Acid Rain

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  • Caused by pollutants in the air from combustion of fossil fuels
  • Nitrogen and sulfur pollutants cause pH of rain be less than 5.6
43
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Acid Rain

A
  • Caused by pollutants in the air from combustion of fossil fuels
  • Nitrogen and sulfur pollutants cause pH of rain be less than 5.6
44
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Greenhouse effect

A
  • global warming
  • Burning of fossil fuels caused the concentrations of CO2 in the air to increase
  • CO2 and water vapor absorb infrared radiation reflecting off Earth, and temp rise
45
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Depletion of Ozone Layer

A
  • Accumulation of chlorofluorocarbons formed a hold in the ozone layer
  • more ultraviolet light reach Earth, increase of skin cancer
46
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Decomposer

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-absorb most breakdown products and recycle nutrients back to the soil to nourish plants

47
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Diatoms

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Photosynthetic protists in the ocean

48
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Phytoplankton

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algae and photosynthetic bacteria in aquatic eenvironments

49
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Nitrogen-fixing bacteria

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Live in the nodules in the roots of legumes and convert free nitrogen into ammonia

50
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Nitrifying bacteria

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Convert ammonia into nitrites and then into nitrates

51
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Denitrifying bacteria

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convert nitrates into free nitrogen

52
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Decomposers

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Bacteria that break down dead organic matter into ammonia

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