Lecture 17: Chapter 12- Intraspecific Population Regulation Chapter 14- Interspecific Competition

Question 1

Explain how density-dependent changes in birth- and death rates limit population size as the population grows

Question 2

carrying capacity as it relates to birth and death rates of a population

Question 3

intraspecific competition

Question 4

scramble competition

Question 5

contest competition

Question 6

exploitation competition

Question 7

interference competition

Question 8

describe pathways and effects of intraspecific competition in plants

Question 9

describe the process of self thinning in plant populations ( and communities)

Question 10

Be able to construct and interpret a Lotka-Volterra diagrams

Question 11

fundamental vs realized niche with examples

Question 12

competitive exclusion principle with examples

Question 13

competitive release w/ examples

Question 14

no-analog community

Question 15

discuss why it is difficult to forecast the range and survival of species under climate change and/or when the species are added or removed from communities