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| Farr's rule (relationship between density of the population and the death rate) |
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| Buffon, Malthus, Quetelet, Verhulst |
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| community regulation and succession |
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| mathematical model of the spread of infectious disease |
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| # of offspring produced by each female during each time period |
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| physiological ( high survivorship into adulthood |
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| ecological (constant risk of mortality |
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| maturational (low juvenile survivorship) |
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| species that can reproduce multiple times over the course of their adult lives |
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| reproduce only once in their lives (big bang) |
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| species whose life history strategies allow for high intrinsic rates of increase |
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| species whose life history strategies allow them to persist at or near the carrying capacity of their environment (more specialized in resource use and less tolerant of variation in resource quality) |
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| use of natural enemies to reduce population density of an economically damaging species |
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| bright colors or striking patterns to warn predators that you're poisonous |
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| nontoxic species resembles a toxic species |
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| # of aposematic species converge on a common color pattern |
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| camouflage into something inedible for predator |
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| evolution of similar traits in suites of species experiencing similar selection pressures |
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| inferior competitor may go locally extinct |
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| changes in ways competing species use same resource, allows them to coexist |
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| limiting resource available to all competitors and outcome of completion depends on relative efficiency with which competitors use up resource |
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| gropus of species that exploit the same resource but in slightly different ways |
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| natural selection leads to divergence of character bc more living things can exist in same area the more they diverge in structure, habits, and constitutions |
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| gross primary productivity |
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| rate at which all primary producers in a particular community turn solar energy into stored chemical energy via photosynthesis |
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| energy that is accumulated |
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| the rate at which energy is incorporated into the primary producers' bodies through growth and reproduction |
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| amount of primary producer biomass available for consumption by heterotrophs |
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| overall transfer of energy from one trophic level to the next |
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| abiotic, biotic, resources |
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| physiological, behavioral |
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| diversity within a single community or habitat |
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| measure of the change in species composition from one community or habitat to another |
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| regional diversity found over a range of communities or havitats in a geographic region |
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| energy resources greatest at first, depleted with succession |
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| when land masses fuse, 2 biotas disperse into region they hadn't previously inhabited |
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| appearance of a physical barrier that splits the range of a species |
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| extends from shoreline to edge of continental shelf |
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| area of coastal zone affected by wave action |
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n1 x n2 / (# of marked recaptured in second sample)
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| group of individuals born within the same time frame |
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| competitor interferes with another competitor's access to a limiting resource |
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