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| Non-Linear Across Range of intensities of abiotic conditions. Functions at optimal (whether alot, a little, or middle) |
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| Range of condtions (resource level, densities of other specieis) which an organism or species can survive and reproduce. (N dimensional if each condition, resource, or species can be seen as dimensions) |
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Fundamental Niche
Realized Niche |
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Fundamental: largest niche (conditions) in which species can persist in absence of adverse interactions.
Realized: generally smaller niche volume occupied by a species when there are interspecific interactions |
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| REsidual population left over from time when environment could support its survival and reproduction, which can no longer replace itself locally |
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| Habitat where death rates exceed birth rates, and organisms are present only because of immigration from source habitats. |
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| Resources produced in one habitat that support consumers in a second habitat |
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| maintaining internal state with a narrow range of conditions than external environment |
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| an organism that shifts responses due to a condition caused by the external factors it has experienced in the past. |
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Ectotherms rely on external sources of heat to regulate temperature
Endotherms generate own metabolic heat and production to regulate temperature |
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| Temperature Effects (how they affect organisms) |
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Governs rate of development and growth in ectotherms.
Is a cue for seasonal life cycle events |
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| Organism's lifetime pattern of growth, differentiation, storage, reproduction |
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| Sequence of stages through which organism passes to develop from zygote to reproductive adult to make more zygotes |
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| Individual group or biotic fragment that can potentially begin a new population |
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| Unitary vs Modular organisms |
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Unitary: develop from zygote to adult with determinant form
Modular: grow by repeated interactions of its parts into an adult of indeterminate form (ie: coral, poison oak)
-Genet: genetic individual, all the biomess that derived from single embryo
-Ramet: subunit of genet that is physiologically viable as autonomous fragment |
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| Lizard research, finding lizards live more in cobble rocks than in meadow due to better temperature regulations or lack of predators |
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| Study of how vital rates of individuals affect structure and dynamics of populations |
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| group of potentially interbreeding individuals (same species, co-occur in time and space) |
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Density Independent natural selection. Maximize reproductive success in uncrowded area.
Short life, small size, high predator vulnerability, weak competitor, good dispensor, many small offspring, early reproduction (ie: rabbits) |
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Density-Dependent. Sensitive to density dependent selection
long life span, large size, low vulnerability to predators, strong competitor, slower disperser, fewer but better provisioned offspring, late reproduction (ie: humans) |
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| Sum total of species' use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment |
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