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Plants Flashcards

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Sonoran Desert (Location)

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An ecosystem located in Southwest USA and Northwest Mexico

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When is the growing season in the Sonoran Desert and why?

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It has a real issue of running out of water in the summer (only 1.5 inches of rain) so the only good growing season for plants is during winter

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What are annual plants?

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A plant that completes it life cycle in one year then die (shorter-lived, faster growing)

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What are perennial plants?

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A plant that regrows in a specific season, grow back every year (slower growing, longer life)

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How is climate changing?

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Temperature increases, rainfall is more episodic and the amount of rain decreases (althought it can be more intense), more flooding and droughts

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Why is water important for plants?

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For structural purposes; on a cell level, it causes osmosis and turgor pressure

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What part of the plant absorbs water?

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Roots

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What part of the plan has the sugar or sunlight?

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Leaf

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9
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What percentage of plants make up the Earth’s biomass?

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80%

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What molecule makes up most of a plant’s biomass?

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Cellulose

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Where does the carbon in cellulose in a plant come from?

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From the air (CO2)

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Photosynthesis

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6CO2 + 6H2O (l) + sunlight –> glucose + 6O2 (g)

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Equilibrium Concentration

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Movement from high to low concentration in order to create balance

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Passive Transport

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ATP is not needed, potential energy in the form of a gradient is transformed to kinetic energy

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Diffusion

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Net movement of molecules from areas of high concentration to low concentration

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Osmolarity

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Movement of solvent (water) across a semipermeable membrane from high to low concentration (created equilibrium of solute and solvent)

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Osmosis

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Diffusion of water, water concentration and solute concentration are opposites
Dilute: high H20, low solute
Concentrate: low H20, high solute

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Turgid Cell

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water enters through osmosis, vacuole swells and pushed against cell wall

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Flaccid Cell

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water is lost, vacuole shrinks, cell loses shape

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How does water enter from the roots (bottom) and leave from the stomata (top)?

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Due to the transport system in plants

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What are a plant’s vascular tissue?

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Xylem and Phloem

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Xylem

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Only moves water in one direction from the roots to the leaves (water up)

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Phloem

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Carries nutrients, sugar, hormones, etc. around through osmosis (glucose down)

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Turgor Pressure

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Created when water flows into the vacuole of a plant cell and then pushes outward on the cell wall, allows the plant to stand straight and grow

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How does the xylem move water?

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passive transport, capillary action

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Stomata

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gaps in the leaf/ that open and close for gas exchange using guard cells

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Why is biodiversity important in the Somoran Desert?

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All organisms want to maximize fitness

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Gas Exchange

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stomata will open when guard cells are turgid with an abundance of water and closed when water is scarce and the guard cells are flaccid, the exchange of O2 and CO2 that causes water loss

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What would happen if the stomata never opened?

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no photosynthesis, O2 toxicity and no growth/death of plant

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30
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How will a plant wilt faster?

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drier air (humidity), high temperatures, windy, surface area (more exposure and more stomata)

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Transpiration

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evaporation of water from plants

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32
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What does the total amount of water transpired depend on?

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Depends on the amount of time stomata are open and the rate of water loss

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33
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How can winter annuals survive without a lot of water?

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1) when it does rain, the plant can grow quickly and hope they don’t dry out (quick growth)
2) limit water waster and conserve, have a slow life cycle

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34
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Risks of Fast Growth

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Could die without reproduction

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Risks of Slow Growth

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Could be out competed by faster growing plants

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36
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Relative Growth Rate (RGR)

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biomass gained over time

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37
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Water Use Efficiency (WUE)

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carbon gained (growth) over water loss

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38
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Why can you not be high in RGR and WUE?

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high RGR means a lot of leaves for photosynthesis but with more stomata on the leaves and more surface area, there is more water loss

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39
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What are the issues with the amount of winter precipitation and plants?

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the amount of precipitation is not consistent which means there is more of a chance of smaller rain events (which is better for slower growers) meaning that there are different plants growing different years

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40
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Why do we keep losing energy as heat?

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Due to the second law of thermodynamics, as a natural byproduct of biological processes (only ~10% is conserved)

41
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How do we replenish lost energy?

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Photosynthesis

42
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Respiration

equation

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O2 + glucose –> H2O + CO2 + ATP

43
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Potential Energy

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Energy held by an object due to its relative position to other objects, stored in a gradient which is where kinetic energy comes from

44
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Resting Energy

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energy possessed by an object relative to its position, higher from the ground = more energy (same for the relative energy of electrons and their distance from the nuclei), the reason photosynthesis works and electrons can be “excited” by photons

45
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Carbon-based Life

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CO2 (inorganic carbon) —> glucose (easier energy to access) –> cellulose —> organisms

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Carbohydrates

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combination of carbon and oxygen, sugars or starches (-ose)

47
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Carbon

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always need 4 covalent bonds (either C, O, H), can have partial charge due to electronegativity but no overall charge

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Carbon Bonds

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Carbon-Oxygen (lowest potential energy), Carbon-Carbon (electrons are equidistant), Carbon-Hydrogen (most potential energy)

49
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To be reduced?

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gain of potential energy (more of it), gain of electrons

50
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Oxidized

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loss of potential energy (less of it), loss of electrons

51
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Redox Reactions

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Transfer of electrons within a chemical reaction
A is oxidized by B = B is the oxidizing agent
B is reduced by A = A is the reducing agent

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Oxidation and Reduction In Photosynthesis

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CO2 is reduced, H2O is oxidized, and energy is added (CO2 has less energy than glucose in its bonds)

53
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Leaves

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Palisade (mesophyll) cells on upper surface on the leaf where a majority of photosynthesis takes place

54
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Leaf Structures

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cell wall, cell membrane (phospholipid bilayer), vacuole, nucleus, nuclear envelope, chloroplast, mitochondria

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Endosymbiosis

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mutualism, a relationship where one organism lives inside the other (example: mitochondria and chloroplast)

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Chlorophyll Structures

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stroma (space), thylakoid, semipermeable membrane, lumen, granum (stacks of thylakoid)

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Photosystems and Chlorophyll A

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embedded proteins in thylakoid, has light absorbing pigment (chlorophyll a), the pigment absorbs red, blue, and violet light but reflects green wavelength

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Light-Dependent Reaction

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converts light to chemical energy in the thylakoid membrane

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Calvin Cycle

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uses chemical energy to reduce Carbon in CO2 into sugar energy from ATP and NADPH (short-term energy) and glucose (long term energy) in the stroma

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How many molecules does Calvin Cycle need?

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It needs 18 ATP, 6 CO2, 12 NADPH

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Photosystem 2

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light focuses on chlorophyll, photons excite out electron, gets taken to ETC resulting in chlorophyll+, breaks water down to replace the electron, the oxygen leaves through the stomata and ions stay in lumen, electron goes with chlorophyll

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Electron Transport Chain

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shuttle electrons from one photosystem to another, electron is excited and moves through proteins releasing energy, using the released energy to move H+ from stroma to lumen (out to in, against concentration), arrives in photosystem 1 in its normal form

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Photosystem 1

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chlorophyll+ gets electron from the ETC, light re-excites the electron, chlorophyll donates its electron to create NADPH from NADP+ (reduced), and the replacement electron arrives from ETC like a cycle

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Active Transport

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from low to high concentration, uses ATP to against concentration gradient

65
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ATP-synthase

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done by enzyme, uses established H+ gradient (high to low concentration = passive transport) which built into the thylakoid membrane, converts ADP to ATP (low to high energy) and converts the potential energy gradient to kinetic energy to chemical energy

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Fixation

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1 RuBP (5-C sugar) + CO2 –(Rubisco enzyme)–> 2 PGA (3-C sugar)

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Reduction

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2 PGA –> 2 G3P (3-C sugar), ATP becomes ADP and NADPH becomes NADP+

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Regeneration

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2 G3P –> RuBP, ATP becomes ADP

69
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Why are the winter annual communities in the Sonoran Desert so diverse?

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Because of gas exchange and photorespiration

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Gas Exchange Issue

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winter precipitation is unpredictable, so different species survives each year; due to climate change small rain events are more likely which is better for slow growth plants, but the intensity of the rain changes so the winning strategy relies solely on whatever allows for higher fitness (more offsprings/seeds)

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Photorespiration Issue

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Rubisco binds to oxygen gas and not CO2 which produces excess CO2, uses up ATP, does not make sugar, more likely in hot temperatures and when stomata are closed (minimal available CO2)

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C3 Photosynthesis

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most common photosynthetic process that happens in 90% of plants, CO2 –> Calvin Cycle

73
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C4 Photosynthesis

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takes CO2 turns it into malate sugar which is moved to bundle sheath cells, converted back to CO2 for Calvin Cycle, has seperate C-fixation and O2 so the rubisco never comes in contact with oxygen

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CAM Photosynthesis

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Only open the stomata during the night, stores malate during the day, converts it into CO2 (takes energy) and surrounds Rubisco by CO2 so the processes of Calvin Cycle and C-fixation are seperate

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Cons of C4 and CAM Photosynthesis

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C4 will use excess energy and is for plants with excess water and CAM is good for plants in hot and dry areas with slow growth only

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Competition

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species compete for limited resources, negative impact for both of them (-,-)

77
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Niche

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environmental conditions and resources necessary for survival and reproduction (can include climate envelop)

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When is competition the strongest?

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between species that use resources similarly

79
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Niche Partitioning

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With certain conditions species can use the same set of resources, weaker species with give up overlapping resource “niche space” but if there is anything remaining, they get it

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Spatal Niche Partitioning

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similar resources used by multiple species, but in a slightly different physical area like when different birds occupy different layers of a tree

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Temporal Niche Partitioning

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the same resources are used by multiple species, but they are taken at different times (for example, day vs night, or seasons)

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Functional Niche Partitioning

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Any other way that the similar resource pool can be divided as a catch-all

83
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How does the Sonoran Desert coexist?

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Through temporal niche partitioning

84
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Niche Space

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All the resources and conditions of an ecosystem

85
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Options for Niche Space

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1) there’s a better competitor across the whole niche space and the other species are excluded

2) there is no best competitor so the all give up a little niche space and coexist

86
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Specialist

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narrow niche = specialized requirements (more of them in biodiverse spaces)

87
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Generalist

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wide niche = can utilize different resources

88
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Fundamental

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The niche that is potentially occupied by a species in the absence of competition

89
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Realized

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The niche that is occupied by a species in the presence of competition

90
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Intraspecific vs Interspecific Competition

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Intraspecific competition is competition within a singular species but interspecific competition is between 2 different species

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Can fundamental and realized niche be the same?

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Yes, it can be the same if the species is either the best competitor or if there is no competition

92
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K-Selected

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low offspring production, high parental involvement, long lifespan, slow period of maturity, long gestation period

92
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R-Selected

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  • reproduce quickly
  • produce many offsprings
  • low parental involvement
  • high offspring mortality
  • small lifespans
  • short gestational periods
92
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Survivorship Curves

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k-selected curve: most live to the max age

r-selected: most die young, those that make it to a certain life span usually achieve max age

neither r nor k: these organisms do not experience age related morality (linear)

93
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How fast can a population grow?

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exponential growth = no limitations on resources, not sustainable or realistic

logistic growth = limited resources limit populations over time

93
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Is there a better strategy between reproductive strategies?

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There is not, it is a spectrum and there are tradeoffs to each option

93
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Per Capita Growth Rate

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the average # of offspring an individual has over a given time period (year

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Population Growth Rate

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the # of indiv. added (or lost) to a population in a given time period (year)

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