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competition between individual members of the same species.
For: Mates, resources, leadership, territory |
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| Interspecific Competition |
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| competition between different species that may be trying to occupy Resources and territory |
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| The weight/mass of living things |
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Keystone species are those species whose importance
to an ecosystem’s structure, composition, and function
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| Produce their own food. Use photosynthesis. |
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| Any organism that consumes or feeds on plants or decaying matter. |
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Feeds on primary consumers,
Eg: Frog, Snakes |
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| Feeds on secondary and primary consumers. Eg: Whales, Eagles, Lions |
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| A branch of biology that deals with the distribution, abundance and interactions of living organisms at the level of communities, populations, and ecosystems, as well as at the global scale. |
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| Pertains to a living thing (such as plant, animal, fungus, etc.) as well as its products (e.g. secretions, wastes, and remains). |
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| Nonliving, as in abiotic factor, which is a nonliving physical and chemical attribute of a system, for examplelight, temperature, wind patterns, rocks, soil, pH, pressure, etc. in an environment. |
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| A group of organisms of one species that interbreed and live in the same place at the same time (e.g. deer population). |
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An ecological unit composed of a group of organisms or a population of different speciesoccupying a particular area, usually interacting with each other and their environment.
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| A system that includes all living organisms (biotic factors) in an area as well as its physical environment(abiotic factors) functioning together as a unit. |
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A major ecological community of organisms adapted to a particular climatic or environmental condition on a large geographic area in which they occur.
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| the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms. |
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| an organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide. |
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| an organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances. |
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| Eg: Lion, sharks, humans, |
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| Use photosynthesis to feed themselves. |
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| a hierarchical series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food. |
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| a system of interlocking and interdependent food chains. |
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| Only eat plants, no meat or living thing. Eg: rabbit, sheep, horse, cow |
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| Eat plants and meat. Eg. bears, panda, elephant |
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| Eat other animals. Eg wolf, lion, tiger |
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an animal that feeds on dead organic material, especially plant detritus.
Eg: Crabs, sea birds |
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| an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material. |
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| the preying of one animal on others. |
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| A form of symbiosis in which one organism (called parasite) benefits at the expense of another organism usually of different species (called host). The association may also lead to the injury of the host. |
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| A form of symbiosis between two organisms of different species in which one of them benefits from the association whereas the other is largely unaffected or not significantly harmed or benefiting from the relationship. |
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| A symbiotic relationship between individuals of different species in which both individuals benefit from the association. |
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| A symbiotic relationship between or among living things for resources, such as food, space, shelter, mate, ecological status, etc. |
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| a long-term relationship between two different species. |
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| largest number of individuals of a particular species that can survive over long periods of time in a given enviroment, this level depends on the effect of the limiting factors |
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| migration from a place (especially migration from your native country in order to settle in another) |
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| the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. |
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| growth whose rate becomes ever more rapid in proportion to the growing total number or size. |
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| The S-shaped pattern in which the growth of a population typically slows down as it approaches carrying capacity. |
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| the ability to produce abundant offspring; fertility |
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