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Population

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A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area at a given time.

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Metapopulation

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A collection of local populations of a species connected by occasional dispersal.

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Clumped Dispersion

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Individuals cluster together, often due to resource availability or social behavior.

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Uniform Dispersion

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Individuals are evenly spaced, often due to territorial behavior.

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Random Dispersion

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Individuals are distributed without a specific pattern

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What factors affect clumped dispersion?

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Resources and social behavior.

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What factors affect uniform dispersion?

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Territoriality and competition.

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What factors affect random dispersion?

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No specific factors

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Population Age/Stage Pyramid

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Shows the distribution of individuals by age or developmental stage, revealing the population’s age or stage structure.

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What are some Density-Dependent Factors ?

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Competition, Predation, and Disease

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Density-Dependent Factors

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Factors that become more intense as the population density increases, regulating population size.

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Density-Independent Factors

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Weather, Natural Disasters, and Habitat destruction affects populations regardless of density.

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What drives Population Fluctuations?

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Biotic (predation, competition) and abiotic (Climate, resource availability) Factors

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Life Table

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A summary of the age-specific mortality and reproductive rates in a population.

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Demographic Stochasticity

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Random variation in birth and death rates.

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Environmental Stochasticity

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Random environmental fluctuations

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What factors influence population dynamics?

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Demographic and Environmental Stochasticity

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Type I Survivorship Curve

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Low mortality early in life (eg humans)

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Type II Survivorship Curve

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Constant Mortality Rate (eg birds)

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Type III survivorship curve

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High mortality early in life (eg. trees)

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Fecundity Table

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Shows the age-specific birthrates for a population.

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What is R0

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It is the Net Reproductive Rate of Females

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What is Net Reproductive Rate (R0)?

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The average number of offspring produced by an individual in its lifetime.

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Stable Age Distribution

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The age structure a population approaches when its age-specific birth and death rates remain constant.

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Exponential Growth
Continuous and unlimited
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Geometric Growth
Discrete, non-overlapping generations.
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Instantaneous Growth Rate
(r) the rate of population growth
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Finite Growth Rate
(λ) Lambda The proportional change in population size between generations
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Logistic Growth
Populations growth with limiting factors and a carrying capacity (K). Assumes sigmoid growth curve.
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What Model explains Human Population Growth?
Logistic growth due to resource limitations and declining birth rates. The value of K is uncertain.
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Demographic Transition Model
As societies develop, birth and death rates decline, leading to population stabilization. Age-structure pyramids reflect this transition.
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Intraspecific Competition
Competition among individuals of the same species.
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What can Intraspecific competition lead to?
Reduced growth, fecundity, and survival.
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r-strategists
High reproductive rates and adapt to unstable environments.
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k-strategists
lower reproductive rates and are adapted to stable environments.
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Interspecific Competition
Competition between different species for shared resources.
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Lotka-Volterra Equations for Competition
Describes the interactions and outcomes of competition between two species.
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What are the four outcomes of competition?
Competitive exclusion, coexistence, resource partitioning, and character displacement.
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Ecological Niche
The role and position a species has in its environment.
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Competitive exclusion
When two species have identical niches can lead to elimination of one species.
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Predation
The consumption of one organism by another.
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Forms of predation
Herbivory, Carnivory, and Parasitism
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What factors are included in the Lotka-Volterra equations?
Prey growth rate and predator conversion efficiency
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Functional Responses
Changes in the predator's consumption rate as prey density changes.
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Numerical Responses
Changes in predator population size
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How does Herbivory affect plant populations?
Can lead to the evolution of various plant defenses
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What are some animal defenses against predation?
Physical and Chemical Defenses, and Behavioral adaptations
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What are some predator hunting techniques?
Ambush, Pursuit, and Stalking
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Can predators control prey density?
Predators can influence prey populations, but it depends on various factors including predator-prey interactions
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Parasitism
Organisms that live on or in a host organism, often harming it
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How do hosts respond to parasites?
Hosts respond with immune or behavioral defenses.
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Definitive host
The parasite reproduces in or on the host
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Intermediate Host
Hosts the developmental stages of a parasite
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Mutualism
A mutually beneficial interaction between two species.
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Facultative mutualism
Non-obligate, mutually beneficial relationship between two species .
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Coexistence
The ability of two or more species to live together in the same habitat over an extended period without exclusion
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Resource Partioning
Dividing and sharing limited resources.
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Character Displacement
The divergence in traits that reduces the intensity of competition.
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What is a cohort in a life history table
An age or stage group
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What is the Allee Effect?
When a population declines even at a low density

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