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Ch 36 & 37
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Biology
Undergraduate 1
05/05/2011

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Population Ecology
Definition
The study of how members of a population interact with their environment, focusing on factors that influence population density and growth
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Population
Definition
A group of individuals belonging to one species and living in the same geographic are
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Population Density
Definition
The number of individuals of a species per unit area or volume
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Dispersion Pattern
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The manner in which individuals in a population are spaced within their area
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Clumped Dispersion Pattern
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Describing a dispersion pattern in which individuals are aggregated in patches
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Uniform Dispersion Pattern
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Describing a dispersion pattern in which individuals are evenly distributed
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Random Dispersion Pattern
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Describing a dispersion pattern in which individuals are spaced in patternless, unpredictable ways
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Life tables
Definition
A listing of survivals and deaths in a population in a particular time period and predictions of how long, on average, an individual of a given age will live
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Survivorship Curves
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A plot of the nmber of members of a cohort that are still alive at each age; one way to represent age-specific mortality
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per capita rate of increase
Definition
The average contribution of each individual in a population to population growth
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Exponential Growth Model
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A mathmatical description of idealized, unregulated population growth
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Limiting Factors
Definition
Environmental factors that restrict population growth
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Logistic Growth Model
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A mathmatical description of idealized population growth that is restricted by limiting factors
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Carrying Capacity
Definition
In a population, the number of individuals that an environment can sustain
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Density-Dependent
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Referring to a decline in birth rates or a rise in death rates in response to an increasein the number of individuals living in a designated area
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Life History
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The series of events from birth through reproduction to death
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r-selection
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the concept that in certain popultions, a high reproductive rate is the chief determinant of life history
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k-selection
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the concept that in certain populations, life history is centered around producing relatively few offspring that have a good chance of survival
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Sustainable resource management
Definition
Management of natural resource so as not to damage the resource
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maximum sustained yield
Definition
the level of harvest that produces a consistent yield without forcing a population into decline
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demographic transition
Definition
A shift from zero population growth in which birth rates and death rates are high to zero population growth characterized instead by low birth and death rates
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Age Structure
Definition
the relative number of individuals of each age in a population
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population momentum
Definition
in a population in which r=0, the continuation of population growth as girls in the prereproductive age group reach their reproductive years
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ecological footprint
Definition
a method of using multiple constraints, including food, fuel, water, housing, and waste deposits, to estimate the human carrying capasity of the Earth
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