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Prelim #2 Flashcards

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human development index

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a summary measurement of average achievement in key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, being knowledgeable and have a decent standard of living

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what kind of population growth is being exhibited by the world’s human population?

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greater than exponential, increasing r

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pre agricultural period

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  • 100,000 years
  • hunters and gatherers
  • ten of thousands of years for population to double
  • population 5-10 million at end
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agricultural period

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  • began 10,000 years ago
  • domestication of plants and animals
  • doubling time ~1,000 years
  • 500+ million at end of period
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industrial period

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  • ~200 years ago
  • current period
  • advances: technology, fossil fuels, sanitation, medicine
  • death rates decline
  • doubling time ~50 years
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life expectancy: rich vs poor countries

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  • going up worldwide
  • higher in rich countries
  • influenced by wealth/development, nutrition, healthcare, sanitation
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cause of death in rich vs poor countries

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rich: chronic illness: heart attack, stroke, cancer
poor: infectious disease, pneumonia, HIV/AIDS, malnutrition, diarrheal disease

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infant mortality rate in rich vs poor countries

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poor countries’ have a rate that is 13 times higher than rich countries

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fecundity

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  • potential for reproduction of an organism
  • differs between developed and less developed nations
  • number of births in US is 2 compared to 7 in Niger
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people in poorer nations…reproduce….and …..

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  • reproduce more and sooner

- birth rates lower in richer countries

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demographic transition model: stage 1

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  • preindustrial/pretransition
  • before economic development
  • death rate high
  • birth rate high
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demographic transition model: stage 2

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  • transitional
  • mortality transition
  • death rate decreases
  • birth rate stays high
  • rapid population growth
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demographic transition model: stage 3

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  • industrial
  • fertility transition
  • death rate stays low
  • birth rate decreases
  • population growth slows
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demographic transition model: stage 4

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  • post-industrial
  • stability transition
  • low birth and death rate
  • birth and death rates equal
  • zero population growth
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demographic transition model: Niger vs. Netherlands

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  • niger is in stage 2, approaching stage 3

- netherlands is in stage 3, approaching stage 4

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demographic transition model: 5th stage?

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  • declining birth rate
  • declining death rate (not as much as birth rate)
  • declining total population
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how to help a starving nation?

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  • not food, that just increases K slightly, does not decrease population growth rate
  • education
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reduction of birth rate seen with

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  • economic development
  • educational opportunities for women
  • empowerment of women
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IPAT equation

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I=P*A*T
I=environmental impact
P=population size, growth, distribution
A=affluence (individual consumption)
T=technology (energy using items)
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Exploitation

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+/-

predation, herbivory, parasitism

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competition

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-/-
2 plants next to each other (limited light)
a cheetah and a lion fighting over carcass

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mutualism

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+/+

  • pollination, cleaner fish, seed dispersal
  • association between individuals of 2 species in which each parter benefits from the association
  • benefits: fitness, population growth, across the ecosystem overall
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neutralism

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0/0

dog and cat sniff each other and then walk on

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commensalism

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+/0

phoresy (biological taxi service, mites use birds for transportation)

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ammensalism

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-/0

elephants or cows stepping on plants

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how are interactions asymmetric?

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positive can be more extreme for one organism, negative can be extreme negative (death for one dinner for other)

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place interspecific interactions into definition of hierarchical framework for ecology

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population ecology: emphasis on relationships with interacting species

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obligate mutualism

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fundamental for survival

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facultative mutualism

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not necessary to survive, but it benefits both to remain together

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3-way obligate symbiotic example

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cellulase producing bacteria live in gut protist which lives in termite, bacteria and protist get place to live, termite is able to digest food

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defensive mutualisms

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  • mostly facultative
  • species receive food/shelter from partners in return for defending predators against herbivores, predators, or parasites
    ex: aphids
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mutualism: by-product

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not costly, a benefit that comes from the “regular” activities of the partner
ex: aphid excrement drunk by ants, mixed species flocks

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mutualism: investment

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costly product or service for the partner, typically not needed for self
ex: nectar produced by plants, nitrogen fixed by rhyzobia

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mutualism: purloin

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costly product taken/stolen from partner

ex: plant pollen fed to bee larvae, blood taken by oxpeckers

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conditionality

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how environmental conditions impact the strength and direction of interaction outcomes

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conditionality is common when

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  • interaction is facultative
  • interaction is indirect (has multiple partners
  • density/spatial distance of partner matters
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exploitative interactions: low lethality, high intimacy

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parasites, flea, common cold, vampire bat

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exploitative interactions: low lethality, low intimacy

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herbivores, deer

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exploitative interactions: high lethality, low intimacy

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predators, trout (eats minnows)

40
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exploitative interactions: high lethality, high intimacy

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parasitoids: wasp (lays eggs inside caterpillar and eggs eat it from inside out)

41
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how do animals defend against predators?

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  • color matching (crypts, camouflage, nocturnally, mimicry)
  • toxicity (aposematism, venoms)
  • behavior (running away, hiding, aggregation, vigilance)
  • physical armament (turtle shell)
  • size refuge
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how do plants defend against herbivores?

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  • toxicity/chemical defense
  • physical armament (spines, hairs, bark, thorns)
  • phenological escape
  • bodyguards
  • behavior (moving away_
  • color matching (crypsis)
  • plants can’t run away the same way animals do
43
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why is nicotine inducible?

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costs are important: may be energetically or ecologically costly

44
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plant defense hypothesis

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plant produces chemicals to ward off herbivores but lets in pollinators

45
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parasitoid

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  • insect that lays one or a few eggs on or in a host organism, which the resulting larvae remain with, consume, and kill in the process
  • functionally equivalent to a predator
46
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parasites

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a relationship in which an organism lives on or in the tissue of its hosts, often reducing the fitness of the host , but not generally killing it

47
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microparasite characteristics

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microscopic, includes bacteria, viruses, protozoans, some fungi, numerous per host, short generation time, multiply directly in host, many intracellular, often induce immunity to reinfection, moderate to high ability to regulate host population

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macroparasite characteristics

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relatively large, include parasitic worms, ticks, fleas, some fungi, low to intermediate densities per host, relatively long generation time, grow but do not multiply within host; persist by continual reinfection, live in body cavities or on body, induce short-term immune response, low ability to regulate host population

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ectoparasite advantages/disadvantages

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lives outside organism

  • advantages: ease of dispersal and safer from host’s immune system
  • disadvantages: vulnerability to natural enemies, exposure to external environment, feeding more difficult
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endoparasite

advantages/disadvantages

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lives inside organism

  • advantages: ease of feeding, protected from external environment, safer from enemies
  • disadvantages: vulnerability to host’s immune system, dispersal difficult
51
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what does disease spread depend on?

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population density, transmission rate, infectious period

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what is R0?

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basic reproductive rate, the number on average, of susceptible individuals that each host infects
R0=# susceptible individualstransmission rateInfectious period

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if R0=1?

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each host infects one new host and the disease prevalence remains constant (replacement level)

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if R0>1

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each host infects more than one new host and the disease prevalence is increasing

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if R0<1

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each host infects less than one new host and the disease prevalence is decreasing

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What does vaccination do to R0?

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decreases the number of susceptible individuals so decreases R0

57
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what else affects R0?

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hand washing, minimizing contact with sick, rest and recovery, medicine, developing immunity to a disease, behavioral avoidance of sick individuals, behavior changes to minimize contact with a vector, changes in populations of intermediate vectors, environmental conditions (stress could increase disease prevalence)

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exploitative/resource/scramble competition

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competition between individuals by reducing the availability of shared resources

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interference/contest competition

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direct competition between individuals for scarce resources by one impeding or denying access to the resource by another

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intraspecific

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occurs among individuals of the same species

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interspecific

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occurs between individuals of different species

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competitive exclusion

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when 2 species are very similar, they may not be able to coexist because competition is so strong. one species may consume all the resources leaving little for the other

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when one species is a better competitor, the other should go locally extinct. in the case of the gerbils, the 2 species coexist. why?

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  • time has been insufficient to allow exclusion
  • the environment is temporally variable
  • the environment has spatial variation
  • there is immigration
  • there are multiple resources
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niche concept

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the range of environmental conditions and resources with which individuals of a species survive, grow, and reproduce

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fundamental niche

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the full hyper volume or range of environmental factors permitting a species to survive and reproduce (think abiotic)

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realized niche

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the conditions under which an organism actually exists, after limitations by factors such as competition, disease and predators (think biotic)

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which is smaller, fundamental niche or realized niche?

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realized niche is typically smaller and can be smaller on numerous n dimensions

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niche as an n-dimensional hypervolume

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concept of the niche is based on a species tolerance and use of a series of n environmental factors and resources.
can define multiple (n) biotic and abiotic resource axes, each with a certain frequency distribution

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giving up density

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used with animals that have diminishing returns with foraging
quit when the costs=benefits

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evolutionary stable strategies

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behavioral strategy that is adopted by a population that cannot be invaded by another strategy

  • all members of a population adopt the strategy
  • no other strategy will yield a greater benefit to individuals over the long term
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assemblage

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a taxonomically related group that occurs in a geographical area

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guild

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a group of organisms that utilize similar resources in a similar way (seed eating vs insect eating birds)

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community

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a group of interacting species that occur together

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community ecology

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the study of two or more species, their interactions and consequences for dynamics, persistence, relative abundance of species and diversity

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community structure

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static properties such as species richness, relative abundance, and distribution

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community function

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dynamic properties that affect the flow of energy and nutrients (primary production, species interactions, decomposition)

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super-organism view

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community members tightly bound and integrated, due in part to shared evolutionary history (Clements)–> interdependent model

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individualistic view

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species are distributed independently of others, interactions are generalized or replaceable (Gleason)–> independent model

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ecotones

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  • regions of rapid replacement of species along an environmental gradient
  • represent zones of transition between discrete communities
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species richness

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number of species present

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evenness

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degree of similarity (equality) in relative abidance of different species

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alpha diversity

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local diversity within a habitat, # of species within habitat

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beta diversity

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among-habitat diversity, measured as species turnover between habitats
-calculated as gamma/alpha diversity

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gamma diversity

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number of species in all habitats within a region (# of species across all habitats)

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bottom-up controls

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nutrients/energy (primary producers) limit the food chain

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top-down controls

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predators influence lower levels

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trophic cascade

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influence of predators at top of food chain flows downward among multiple trophic levels

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what happens when predators eat competitive dominants first?

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as predation intensity increases, prey diversity increases up until the apex when diversity decreases(at a certain point if there are too many predators everyone dies)

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what happens when predators eat competitive subordinates first?

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as predation intensity increases, prey diversity decreases

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dominant species

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a strongly interacting species that has high biomass in a community

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keystone species

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a strongly interacting species whose impact on the community is large and disproportionately great relative to biomass

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ecosystem engineers

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organisms that directly or indirectly influence the availability of resources to other species by creating, modifying, and maintaining habitat structure (beavers, termites)

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community importance

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change in community structure that results from removing that species

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