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What is the study of interactions of organisms with one another and their enviroment?

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Ecology

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What is the change in a population gene pool?

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Evolution

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What is the line up of small to large in ecology?

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Organism->population->community->ecosystems->biosphere

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What are the two main prokaryotes?

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Bacteria and Archea

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What are the 4 domains of Eukarya?

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Protists, Fungi, Plants, Animals

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What is this forumula?

6CO2+6H20->C6H12O6+602

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6CO2+6H20->C6H12O6+602

photosythesis

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What is this formula?

C6H12O6+6O2—>6CO2+6H2O+ATP

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cellular respiration

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What is the number of individuals with in a species with a given area at the same place at the same time?

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population

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What is the biological species concept?

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Members of the same species can reproduce with viable offspring

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What is population distribution?

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geographic area with population

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What is the 2 factors making up population density?

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density/spacing (cohort)

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What is a fundamental niche?

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range of abiotic conditions under which an organism is capable of surviving

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What is a realized niche?

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(smaller) includes range of abiotic and biotic factors under which organisms are capable of surviving

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What did Joseph Connell do?

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Performed an experiment on the fundamental and realized niche for the coastal plane barnacle

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A population’s overall habitat contains patches of different quality and surplus offspring move to neighboring patches through specific favorable routes..
Which model is this?

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Landscape Metapopulation model

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If you wanted to evaluate the population growth of California quail over many generations, which type of model would you select?

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Discrete model

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The individuals of a species that live in one of several connected habitats constitute a ____________.

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Subpopulation

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A discrete model is talking about _____ of time.

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chunks

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If you see a lamda, you use a _________ model.

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Discrete

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If we are talking about individuals being added to the population over months and months and an r is given?

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Continuous model

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If an organism only reproduces once a year you use a _____________ model.

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Discrete

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Metapopulation refers to?

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The entire connected population between multiple sub populations

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In positive density dependence how to r and density interact?

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r decreases with decreasing density

r increases with increasing density

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Using a continuous model, what would the population size be for an initial population (N=100) with an intrinsic growth rate r=0.25 and a time period of 3 years?

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211.7

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Using a discrete equation for population growth, estimate the population size for a group with N=250 and lambda=.25 over a single breeding cycle.
62.5
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Given that environments are patchy, some areas contain high quality resources while neighboring areas may contain lower quality resources, organisms within a population following ideal free distribution have a tendency to distribute themselves where
per capita benefit is the same for all members of the species *think of the fish that allotted themselves more on the side with more food and less on the side with less food
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dN/dt=rN From this equation, what does N represent?
The number of individuals in a population
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Which model would evaluate population growth taking into account density dependent factors?
dN/dt=rn(1-(n/k))
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Calculate the generation time (T) for a population with a net reproductive rate (Ro = 6.2) and expected births weighted by age of 4.4.
0.709 or 258 days
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You are studying a population of finches which make a remarkable recovery from the brink of extinction increasing from 100 individuals to 6,476 over 6 breeding seasons. The value of r for this species over this period was 0.82 per capita per year. What was the doubling time for this species? (Please convert to days if necessary)
307 Days
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An organism experiencing high mortality risk at the beginning of their lifespan would be classified by which survivorship curve?
Type III
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If a population's lamda=.25 what type of number would you expect "r" to be?
Less than zero
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Using a continuous time model to evaluate population growth rates and incorporating density dependent factors we introduce the variable of tau. What does this variable represent?
time lag in population growth rates
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If a population of frogs has an r=0.5 and a tau=1.2, what type of oscillations would you expect to see around K?
damped oscillation
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In life table analysis, __________ of females is defines as the number of female offspring per breeding cycle
fecundity or Bx
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What term represents the variation in birth and death rates due to random differences among individuals?
demographic stochasticity
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What is the change in a population's gene pool?
evolution
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Fill in the blank | rT
0.37
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0.35
rT
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rT>_______=limited cycles
rT>1.57=limited cycles
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What is the equation for Tau?
T=(x)LxBX/LxBx
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What is the equation for doubling time?
t2=0.69/.82
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What are the 5 characteristics of Population Distribution?
Geographic range, Abundance, Dispersion, dispersal, migration
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What do habitat corridors favor?
dispersal
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What is the term for all areas members of a population occupy during their lifetime?
Geographic range
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What is the total # of individuals within a total area?
Abundance
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What is the term for the spacing of individuals?
Dispersion
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What are clustered groups controlled by (In concern to dispersion)?
controlled by resource
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What is evenly spaced dispersion controlled by?
competition for resources
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What is randomly spaced dispersion controlled by?
factors controlling organisms are neither resource or competition based
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What is dispersal?
Movement from one location to another
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Blue tit songbirds dispersal from the downy oak to the holm oak did what?
Benefitted both populations
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When a larger population is broken up into smaller groups they are called?
subpopulations
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What is a basic metapopulation?
large group of individuals with in a large area of some species
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What is a source sink metapopulation?
High quality moves to low quality
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What is a landscape metapopulation?
Shows different routes to different patches
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Whats the population models from simple to most complex?
Simple------------------>Complex | Basic, Source sink, landscape
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The advent of agriculture aids in what?
Population expantion
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What is the discrete time model?
bin of time (year or annual) and number of high or low individuals within a population
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What is a discrete time model best used for?
Very useful for seasonal breeders
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What is a continous time model?
Continous with time (day to day)
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What is a continuous time model best for?
Organism with no seasonal pattern
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What is the formula for the discrete time model?
N(t+1)=Ntlamda
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What does the lamda stand for?
growth rate within the pop
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What does N stand for?
of individuals in a pop
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What does N sub t stand for?
of individuals at time t
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What does N sub t+1 stand for?
of individuals at time t+1(one year ahead)
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Lamda should always be _______.
positive
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Fill in the blank | __
0
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Fill in the blank | lamda=__=population stays consistant
lamda=1=population consistant
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Fill in the blank | lamda>1=population ________
lamda>1=population increasing
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What is the formula for the continuous time model?
Nt=NoE^rt (for J shaped curve, and showing organisms living under idea conditions)
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What is E equal to? | ***
2.72
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What does r stand for?
Intrinsic Growth rate
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Fill in the blank | r=___=constant pop size
r=0=constant pop size
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Fill in the blank | r
r
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Fill in the blank | r>__=pop growing
r>__=population growing
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Lamda is equal to?
lamda=e^r
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logelamda=
logelamda=R
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When a population stays constant, the individuals in a population shows the replacement rate For a constant pop. lamda=___ r=_____ For a decreasing pop Lamda__ R>___
For a constant pop. lamda=1 r=0 For a decreasing pop Lamda1 R>0
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What is the logistic growth model?
dN/dt=rN
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What is the logistic growth model with carrying compacity ?
dN/dt=rN(1-N/k)
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What is the formula for doubling time?
t2=0.69/r
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A pyramid profile is normally used in _________, __________, ________.
A pyramid profile is normally used in pre-reproductive, reproductive and post reproductive
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A classic pyramid will show?
A growing population
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A inverted pyramid will show?
decreasing pop
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A cylindrical pyramid will show?
a consistant population
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In a life table- | Nx stands for?
How many of each class (normally age group) is within a pop @ time
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In a life table- | Sx stands for?
The survival rate @ each age group/class
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In a life table- | NxSx stands for?
of individuals surviving to the next age class
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What is important when calculating NxSx? | And how do you calculate it?
Make sure to skip the first line. ALL BABIES ARE BORN To calculate, you multiply Nx times Sx
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In a life table- | Bx stands for?
``` Fecundity- # of female offspring produced by females ```
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In a life table- | NxSxBx stands for?
of new offspring produced
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How do you calculate NxSxBx?
by multiplying NxSx by Bx
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What columns in the life table will always have 0 in the top line and why?
Bx and NxSxBx | Because babies aren't having babies
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In a life table- | Lx stands for?
survivorship
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Lx should always have what in the first line and why?
1--->because survivorship should go from 1 to 0
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How do you calculate Lx?
Multiply Lo by So then L1 by S1 L2 by S2 etc.
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What is a type I survivorship curve? | Give an example
A pop that experiences very low mortality early in life and high mortality late in life ex. humans
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What is a type 2 survivorship curve? | Give an example
A pop that has moderate fecundity, moderate parental care, moderate lifespan Has constant mortality throughout lifespan ex. rodents
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What is a type 3 survivorship curve? | Give an example
A pop. that has incredibly high fecundity, not long lived, no parenting High mortality early in life, and high survival later on ex. sea turtles, fish, insects, plants
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In a life table- | Ro=_____=___ _________ _____
Ro=NRR=net reproductive rate
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What is the net reproductive rate on the life table? | Ro=______
It is the sum of LxBx
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In a life table- | What is xLxBx?
xLxBx is the expected births weighted by age
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How do you calculate xLxBx?
Multiply Age (x) by LxBx
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How do you calculate t?
T=sum of xLxBx/Sum of LxBx
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What does time lag include?
Lag to next mating season lag for gestation lag for rearing or weaning lag for maturation
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What is T?
tau
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What is the logistical growth equation accounting for time lag?
dN/dt=rN(1-N^(t-T)/K)
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______ populations go extinct faster than ______ populations.
Small populations go extinct faster than large populations
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Small habitat-->small pop-->______ chance of extinction
Small habitat->small population-->High chance of extinction
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The detirministic model shows?
no random variation
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The Stochastic model is a more ______ _____ which incorperates _______ _______.
The stochastic model is a more realistic model which incorperates random variation.
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What are the two types of stochastic models?
Demographic stochasicity and Enviromental stochasiticity
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What is demographic stochasticity?
change of the normal birth rate per reproductive episode
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What is enviromental stochasticity?
change of birth or death rates by resource availbility
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What is the formula for Metapopulation dynamics?
dp/dp=cp(1-p)-ep/colonization extinction
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A shorter version of the formula for Metapopulation dynamics is?
p^(P hat)=1-(e/c)
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If c is bigger than e the pop is going ________.
Extinct
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If e=c the pop is _______.
growing

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