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M3: Population Ecology Flashcards

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1
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What is a group of individuals of species in a specific area?

A

Population

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What is characteristics of a population?

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  1. Distribution
  2. Spacing of individiuals
  3. Density
  4. Age distribution
  5. Birth & Death Rates
    6.Growth Rate
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3
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What are the cause of geographic distribution?

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  1. Environment
  2. Population
    - Behavior
    - Physiology
    - Anatomy
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What is the environmental factor influencing growth, survival, and reproduction of species?

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Niche

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5
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What is the physiochemical condition allowing survival/reproduction of species?

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Fundamental Niche

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What is the actual niche limited by biotic interactions (competition, predation, disease, parasitism)?

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Realized Niche

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What is a small-scale population pattern where an individual has an equal probability of occurring anywhere in an area?

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Random Pattern

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What is a small-scale population pattern where an individual are uniformly spaced through the environment?

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Regular Pattern

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What is a small-scale population pattern where an individual lives in areas of high local abundance separated by areas of low abundance?

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Clumped

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10
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TRUE OR FALSE: Population can be clumped in large scales?

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TRUE

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11
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What is the relationship between population density and body size?

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Indirectly Proportional

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What is the formula for population size?

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Nt = Nt-1 + B + I - D - E

Number of individuals in population at a time (Nt)
Number of individuals at previous time (Nt-1)
Number of births between t and t-1 (B)
Number of immigrants between t and t-1 (I)
Number of deaths (D)
Number of emigrants (E)

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13
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What is are the factors under population dynamics?

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  • Population Growth
  • Population Decline
  • Maintenance of Populations
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What is the increase or decrease of local population densities?

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Dispersal

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What is a type of dispersal where it enters into the population?

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Immigration

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What is a type of dispersal where it goes out of the population?

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Emigration

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17
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What is part of larger population but limited dispersal?

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Subpopulation

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What is a connected subpopulations by exchange of individuals?

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Metapopulation

19
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What is survivorship + mortality?

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Life Table

20
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What are table indicates individuals that are born during the same period?

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Cohort Life Table

21
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What is the survival within a short time?

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Static Life Table

22
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What is the formula for Per capita increase (r)?

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r = (lnRo)/T

23
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What is the proportion of ages within a population?

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Age Distribution

24
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What is the survivorship curve where juvenile survival is high and most mortality occurs among older individuals?

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Type I

25
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What survivorship curve where individuals die at a high rate during juveniles and then at a much lower rates later in life?

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Type III

26
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What survivorship curve where individuals die at equal rates regardless of age?

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Type II

27
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What is the formula for Geometric Rate of Increase?

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y = (Nt+1)/(Nt)
Geometric Rate of Increase (y)
Population in some future time (Nt+1)
Population at earlier time (Nt)

28
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What is the formula for generation time?

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T = (Elxmx)/Ro

29
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What is the formula for Per capita increase (r)?

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r = (lnRo)/T

30
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What is the formula for Net Reproductive Rate?

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Ro = Elxmx
Net Reproduction Rate (Ro)
Proportion of surviving population at age x (lx)
Number of births at age x (mx)

31
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What is the relationship of variables in geometric and exponential growth?

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As population size (N) increases, the rate of population increase (dN/dt) gets larger and larger.

32
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What is the formula for geometric growth and exponential growth?

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dN/dt = rN
Nt = Noe^(rt)

33
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What is the formula for logistic growth?

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dN/dt = rmaxN(1 - N/K)

34
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What is the carrying capacity or theoretical maximum population?

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K

35
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What does r < 0 interpret?

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Population is declining

36
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What does r = 0 interpret?

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Population is stable

37
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What does r > 0 interpret?

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Population is increasing

38
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What does N < K interpret?

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r is positive, population grows

39
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What does N = K interpret?

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r is 0

40
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What does N > K interpret?

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r is negative, population declines

41
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What is the relationship between r and population size?

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r is inversely proportional to population size

42
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What factors are influenced by population density?

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Density-dependent factors

43
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What factors are independent of population density?

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Density-independent factors

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