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Ecology: Patterns and Processes Flashcards

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What is ecology?

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The study of distribution and abundance of organisms; and the factors and interactions that determine them

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Three questions to ask in ecology

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Where, how many, why

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Ecology vs environmentalism

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Environmentalism uses findings from ecology

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Biotic is

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Living

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Abiotic

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Physical and chemical

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Interaction is a combination of

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Biotic and abiotic factor

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The process of hunting and gathering started the use of

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Ecology

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Aristotle wrote

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Historia animalium

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Herodotus and Plato

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Providebtial ecology

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Graunt and Leeuwenhoek wrote

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Population growth (human)Father of demography

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Buffon, Malthus, Quetelet, and Verhulst

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Population regulation

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Farr wrote about

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Relation between density and mortality

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Farrs rule

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Density up, mortality up

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Forbes

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Community regulation and succession

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Ross

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Mathematical model of infectious disease

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Tansley, Clemets, Elton

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Experimental modern ecology

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Showed importance of ecology

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Carson

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Malthus

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Exponential growth for revolutions

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Quetelet

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Logistic population growth

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Cowels

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Community regulation

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Wrote silent spring bout the use of pesticides

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Silent spring

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Ecology scale only goes up to

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B iosphereE cosystemC ommunityP opulationO rganism

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Organism

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Single individual of a species

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Population

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2 or more individuals of the sameSpecies in the same area

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Community

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2 or more populations in the same area

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Ecosystem

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Community with it’s physical environment

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Ecosystem explains the _____ flow and cycling of ______ amount biotic and abiotic components

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EnergyNutrients

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Community explains

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Interactions

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Population explains

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Factors that affect size and composition

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Organism explains

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BPMBehaviors, physiology, and morphology

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P-value

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The strength of conclusions being drawn

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Null hypothesis

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Assuming that variables have no association with each other

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Significance testing

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If p < or = 0.05, you reject the null hypothesis

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