Final Flashcards

(26 cards)

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What is a community?

A

A collection of populations of different species occupying a particular habitat

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What do all organisms require?

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  • a net increase in energy

- materials from the environment

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What are the 2 ways organisms interact when getting resources?

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  • predation

- competition

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What is competition?

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Interactions where 2 or more species require the same resources (matter,energy, or space)

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What is the competitive exclusion principle?

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2 species with identical ecological requirements can not coexist indefinitely

-one species will go extinct while the other will utilize all of the resources

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What is spatial separation?

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The species’ involved have evolved to use resource in another place

  • both species win
  • MacArthur’s warbler–use the same resource but in different places
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What is temporal separation?

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When 2 different species utilize the same resource but at different times

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What is resource separation?

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When species differ in the type of the resource that they are able to utilize

-Darwin’s finches with seed size

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What is a niche?

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A description of all resources required (or potentially utilized) by a species

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What is a fundamental niche?

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A description of all of the resources that the organism had adapted to potentially utilize

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What is a realized niche?

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The portion of the fundamental niche that remains after competition (a fraction of fundamental niche space or equal to depending on the competing species)

-barnacle example

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What are the 3 potential outcomes of species in relation to their niches?

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  • competition coexistence
  • extinction
  • coexistence bc population never reaches competition levels
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What is predation?

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Interaction where one species consumes another

-predators eat what they can without getting hurt

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What does it mean if the reproduction number is averaged (including all males, females, dead or alive) and it equals 1?

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The population is staying the same

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What does it mean if the reproduction number is averaged (including all males, females, dead or alive) and it is more than 1?

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The population is growing

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What does it mean if the reproduction number is averaged (including all males, females, dead or alive) and it is less than 1?

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The population is shrinking

17
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What is a discrete generation?

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When all of the individuals are born and die in the same time period

18
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What are overlapping (continuous) generations?

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When no “generation” is exactly the same

19
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What type of generation predicts exponential growth?

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Both discrete and overlapping generations

20
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What happens as you reach the carrying capacity?

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The death rate goes up as resources diminish

21
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When trying to exterminate a species, instead of trying to reduce death/birth rate, you should instead do what?

A

Decrease the carrying capacity

22
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What is competition?

A

When 2 or more species compete for the same limiting resource

-each individual is lowering the carrying capacity for the other species

23
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What is age structure?

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Some individuals are pre-reproductive and some are post-reproductive

24
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What type of growth is common for the Earth?

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What type of growth does the U.S. have?
Slow growth
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At what point are species' maximized?
The intermediate point (liberation of resources)