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Population Ecology Flashcards

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What does ecology mean?

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The study of the interrelationships between organisms and their enviornment.

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Who is the Father of Ecology, meteorology, geography, and biogeography?

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Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859)

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What is ecology concerned with?

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The scientific definition of ecology, mathematical ecology, and biogeography.

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What is the order of how living things are organized?

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Biosphere to ecosystems to communities to populations to organisms to organ systems to organs to tissues to cells to molecules to atoms.

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Can ecology be studied from a number of different perspectives?

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Yes

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What is a population?

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A group of individuals in the same area at the same time that are all members of the same species.

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Do populations exist alone?

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No

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What is a community?

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A grouping of populations of different species interacting with one another in the same enviornment.

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Most population ecologists study what?

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Communities

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Can a community just be a tree?

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Yes

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Do most ecologists study ecosystems?

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Yes

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What is the definition of an ecosystem?

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An ecosystem is a very large naturally occurring community of living species occupying a major habitat and associated nonliving aspects.

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What is the largest entity ecologists study?

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The biosphere, or Earth

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Healthy ecosystems include what to sustain the ecosystem?

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Plants, fungi, animals, bacteria, protists, viruses, minerals, water, sunlight, and etc

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What are the two other names for the biosphere?

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Ecosphere or Earth

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What are the four sorts of data must we collect for population ecology?

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Size, density, distribution, and ages of individuals

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Is Earth’s human population well sustainable?

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Yes

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What does size mean?

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Number of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same geographical area at the same time.

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What does density mean?

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The number of individuals per unit area or volume.

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What does distribution mean?

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The pattern of distribution of the individuals within the population.

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What are the two things distribution is affected by?

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Physical resources and behavioral adaptations of the organisms.

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What is uniform distribution?

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Occurs often where individuals must compete for a limiting resource

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What is the least common distribution pattern?

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Uniform distribution

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What is clumped distribution?

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When prime living conditions are not found uniformly throughout a habitat

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What is the most common distribution pattern?

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Clumped distribution

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What is random distribution?

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When prime living conditions are found throughout the habitat.

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What is age structure?

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The relative proportion of individuals of each age.

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A growing population has what?

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Higher proportion at lower end

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A shrinking population has what?

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Higher proportion at upper end

30
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The red-cockaded woodpeckers at
The Nature Conservancy’s Piney Grove Reserve has what population?

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A growing population

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If rate of growth remains constant, the speed of the population growth will get what?

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Faster and faster

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What is environmental resistance?

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Any environmental force that prevents a population from growing at its maximum potential.

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Environmental resistances include what?

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“Push-back” against population growth
Limiting factors
Will slow population growth until it stops, and may decline
Limited resources such as starvation, disease

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What are the two types of environmental resistance?

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Density dependent and density independent

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What is a limiting factor?

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Environmental aspects that determine where an organism lives.

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Any environmental factor that is sufficiently in short supply becomes what?

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The prime environmental resistance to population growth.

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Density-dependent environmental resistance is what?

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When an environmental resistance only provides resistance when the population sufficiently large.

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What are examples of density dependent controls?

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Disease, predation, housing/habitat shortages, starvation (famine)
Leads to lower reproductive rates
Self-regulating for most species

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Game hunters are crucial when what is low and what is it part of?

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Predation and density dependent resistance

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Density independent environmental resistance includes what?

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When population size does not matter and they are not usually useful regulators of population growth

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What are examples of density independent environmental resistances?

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Fire, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, drought, volcanoes, natural disasters

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