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Exam 2 Flashcards

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What is the random distribution of animals on a small-scale?

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an individual has an equal probability of occurring anywhere in an area. with neutral interactions between individuals and between the individuals and local environment, they are closer and farther clumped and not clumped
mean=variation

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What is the regular/uniform distribution of animals on a small-scale?

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individuals are uniformly spaced throughout. there are usually antagonistic interactions between individuals or local depletion of resources groups farther away from each other. repel predators

the mean is greater than variation

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What is the clumped distribution of animals on a small-scale?

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individuals live in areas of local abundance in which the mean is less than the variation are separated by areas of low abundance; interactions between individuals of attraction of individuals to a common resource.
clumped for resources and always next to another group of individuals for common protection

many can die and end up looking like a random assortment; more die by competing creating regular; other things come in back to random animals

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What are the trade-offs of allocation in order to reach some resources?

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animals can be good at one or two things, but can’t be good at everything

1) limits are the extremes not the means; cold and hot
2) don’t perform as well at each life stage; bigger plants are more tolerant and the biggest effect on the most vulnerable life stages such as the effects of cold on seedlings

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What is the example of scrub oaks?

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scrub oaks are maintained by fire; 15 year frequency not every tree is burned down, pitch pin wis usually burned but still producing pinecones and acorns that are more likely to germinate as the heat activates; higher seedling production and light availability. Pitch pine increases in frequency with more plowing; oaks decrease with more plowing as when agriculture goes back to forest the plowed scrub oaks cannot survive but controlled fire other other things in. pitch pines must have lots of light for oaks to form where fire and other things can survive with plowing and moving competing better in less nutrient rich species as scrub oaks grow better in less nutrients.
scrub oaks shaded out shorter vulnerable much of life unlike pitch pine as it grows taller. as body size gets bigger density decreases. big organisms small density. small organisms big density. mammals live at slightly higher density than birds, the biggest choice for more food as birds cannot eat big things. aquatic slightly higher density than terrestrial 3D structure can live on top of each other

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What is population abundance?

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the number of organisms in a population with the same N. whats different and causing find details.

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What are unitary organisms?

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single entity whose structure and generally size is determinate ex. humans step at size and don’t grow back digits, lizards won’t grow 3 tails. determinate growth set size and shape the most popular growth examples count individuals

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What are modular organisms?

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can add new growing tissues or modules throughout their life ex. plant, coral aspens clonal and benefits from roots even if seperate from the bottom to top of hill. indeterminate growth can add “modules count ramjets as ecological individuals

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What are ramets?

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1 unit from above=ramet, identical doing well, parthenogenesis budding

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What are genets?

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1 genet=1 genetic individual. assume cross-over and passing stuff on, genetically distinct individuals

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What is population?

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population is a group of interbreeding individuals in the same year.

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What are specifications between genet and ramet?

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genet produce by seed at another place new genet and potentially and genetically different as pollen from someplace else creating offspring that are able to survive other areas.

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What is biomass?

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rather than exact count of individuals overall size

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What is Mark-recapture (Lincoln-Peterson Index)?

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capture individuals mark and recapture

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What are the assumptions of the mark-recapture?

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1) no births
2) no deaths
3) no immigration
4) no emigration
5) mix with the rest of the population
6) behave the same as the rest of the population no more or less likely to be caught!

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What is discrete population growth?

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geometric population growth breeding season; all offspring in spring population suddenly get better each spring, discrete event. not about overlapping generations ex. amphibians, birds, lots of mammals, plants

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What is continuous population growth?

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exponential growth continuous compounds all time (instantaneous population growth or instantaneous rate of increase rmax= intrinsic rate of increase

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What is distribution?

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the distribution of a population includes size, shape, and location of area it occupies; pattern of spacing of individuals

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What is density?

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the number of individuals within one unit area?

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What are abundance?

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total number of individuals

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What is a niche?

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energy constraints physical environment places limits on distribution; environmental factors that influence growth survival and reproduction with factors necessary for its existence, when and where they show up

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What is a fundamental niche?

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physical conditions under which species lives in absence of interactions with other species

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What is a realized niche?

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The actual niche of species limited by biotic competition, production, and disease.
water, air and habitat can physically limit a species, with knowing a species range is defined as the presence and absence and does not note about how individuals in population distributed in areas where they are present

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What are random distributions?

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individuals within a population have an equal chance of living anywhere in an area.

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What are regular distribution?

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individuals uniformly spaced clumped individuals with a much higher probability of being in same areas than others.

26
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What is habitat tolerance?

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range at conditions in which a species small geographic range, narrow habitat tolerance and low population density

27
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What is geometric population growth?

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discrete annual pulses; growth by any population with pulsed reproduction; successive generations differ in size by constant rate. natural populations have a tremendous capacity for increase and unlimited population growth cannot be maintained in any population for very many generations.

28
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What are the things that guarantee growth rates in populations?

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in the presence of abundant resources, populations can grow at geometric or exponential rates.

29
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What is exponential growth?

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continuous population growth in an unlimited environment with short periods depend on resources. and it begins growth in favorable environments at low population densities

30
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What is logistic populate growth?

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environmental limitation incorporated

31
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What are the limits to population growth

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1) disturbances that remove an enormous portion of the population resetting the population size resetting the population size, no matter how big the population is you will lose some portion and it is not a set fraction and they will randomly die
2) a physiological or lethal limit
3) resource availability and density dependence

32
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What are the density limits of populations or density independent factors?

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they are resources: space, water, shelter, breeding sites, food, territories, nesting sites, , nutrients, disease sometime , light for plants,

33
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What are density independent factors?

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disturbances affecting resources, water (sometimes), rainfall (sometimes), disease (sometimes)

34
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What is life history?

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range of neighbors/traits that affect how a species moves through its life cycle. adaptations that determine how an organism negotiates the Keq transitions in time. species do 1 type not all survivorship curves.

35
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What is a cohort life table?

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you follow a group of individuals through their life. start at same time knowing ages. internally consistent but only represent what life is like for one cohort of year’s young.

36
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What is a static life table?

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go out to a population and take a snapshot and look at how many individuals are in each age category. mixing resources available and amount living doesn’t actually start at 0 but it is assumed that started with same number of individuals born but the number of individuals vary.

gives you more of a picture of multiple year’s worth of reproduction, but it mixes changing resources (from different years) with death from age.

37
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Why do we make things logs?

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makes it a straighter line making it a constant rate of decrease comparing fundamental difference.

38
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What are R selected species?

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lots of variation in population size, high fecundity, low investment in offspring survival, smaller body size, higher rmax or lambda, disturbance adapted, not necessarily good competitors, good dispersal

39
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What are K selected species

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fairly constant population size, lower fecundity, care for offspring, larger body size, lower rmax or lambda, not disturbance adapted, good competitors, poor dispersers

40
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What is opportunistic life history?

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combining low juvenile survival with low fecundity, and early and fast maturity

41
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What is equilibrium life history?

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combines high juvenile surveil and low fecundity, and late maturity cycle

42
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What is periodic life history?

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combines low juvenile survival with high fecundity, and late maturity with the first one makes highest.

43
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What is a disturbance?

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anything that removes a large portion of the standing biomes or of the population

44
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What is stress?

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over an under abundance of conditions or resources such that the basks of life may be different.

45
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What is human population growth?

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lifetime reproduction, only female births if women produces 1 daughter reproducing and if they have two babies over all to stay consistent total population only looks at girls

46
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What are semelparous organisms?

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organism that live through 1 bout of reproduction

47
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What are itteroparous organisms?

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multiple reproductive bouts

48
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What are perennial species?

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live more than one year usually iteroparous

49
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What are annual species?

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live one year and usually semelparous

50
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What is interspecific competition?

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competition between 2 different species, no longer based on fitness and most fit individuals but based on competitive ability

51
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What is intraspecific competiion?

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competition between individuals within a species but competition can limit the distribution of species

52
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What is range restriction?

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  1. show that they can occupy a broader range of habitat types alone
  2. show little to no overlap when you find one and don’t find the other
  3. evidence for compeition species from the shared, limiting resources and consequences for both
53
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What is exploitative competition?

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Species share a limiting resource something they “exploit” or can use up and deplete the resource for each other

54
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What are interference competition?

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compentions use aggressive interactions to limits other organism access to limiting shared resources

55
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What is competitive exclusion?

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When one species excludes, keeps out, knocks out of a habitat because of a competion over a shared, limiting resource

56
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What is an ecological niche?

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Hutchinsonian niche states that all of the environmental factors that influence the survival and growth and reproduction of a species.

57
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What is a niche?

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both parts of area however in the presence of competitor who is more competitively successful in that area they are restricted and when they are together the partition resources

58
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What is resource partitioning?

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competitors divide up resources based on competitive ability in different areas of resource space or dividing up niche

59
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What does the solid line on the resource utilization curve illustrate?

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fundamental niche, Hutchinsonian theory or where the organism can use with no competitors present

60
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What does the dashed line on the resource utilization curve illustrate?

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realized niche- niche that organisms inhabit in the presence of another species

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