Lecture 3

Question 1

What was the example that we used to understand succession?

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Question 2

What kind of experiment did the retreat of Muir glacier create?

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Question 3

What is the purpose of the study of succession?

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Question 4

Define succession

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Question 5

Define primary succession

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Question 6

define secondary succession

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Question 7

what is the key difference betwen primary and secondary succession

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soil destruction in secondary succession

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what does primary succession start with?

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Question 9

What is the name for the first life to be introduced to a new habitat?

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Question 12

What happens to species diversity over the course of succession?

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Question 13

What happens to species composition over the course of succession?

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Question 14

Pioneer species usually have what characteristics?

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Question 15

What is the outcome of priary succession?

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Question 16

what happens to species diversity over the course of secondary succession?

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Question 17

What are the traits of primary succession?

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Question 18

What are the traits of secondary succession

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Question 19

What happens to Biomass, NPP, respiration, and nutrient retention durring primary succession?

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Question 20

What happens to Biomass, NPP, respiration, and nutrient retention during secondary succession?

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Question 21

What happens to soild depth as succession goes on?

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Question 22

What increases during succession?

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Question 23

what decreases during succession?

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Question 24

Why does Phosphorous abundance decrease over the course of succession?

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Question 25

what was Joseph Connell's hypothesis about how species diversity?

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Question 26

define a climax community

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Question 28

Define stability

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Question 29

What does the England grass plot experiment demonstrate?

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Question 30

What may cause a lack of change in a community or ecosystem?

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Question 31

define resistance

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Question 32

What is the key feature of resilience?

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Question 33

What are the mechanisms of succession?

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Question 34

How does the facilitation model explain the deaths of pioneer species?

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Question 35

What is special about pioneer species in the facilitation model?

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Question 36

Why does the tolerance model suggest that pioneer species are initially so abundant?

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Question 37

What makes late invaders so abundan during later phases of succession according to the tolerance model?

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Question 38

Why feature of a pioneer species contributes to it's inital success according to the inhibition model?

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Question 39

What is the only way that a new species can colonize a habitat acording to Inhibition model?

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Question 40

Describe the key feature of pioneer species success fro facilitatin, tolerance, and inhibiton models.

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Question 43

How did the Ulva experiment create evidence for inhibition in the rocky intertidal zone?

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Question 44

What did algae do to Phyllospadix seeds?

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Question 45

Do long term successions have Facillitation and inhibition?

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Question 46

Explain how the models for succession mechanisms can be used in long term succession?

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Question 47

Does lupine support the facillitaiton or the inhibition model? or perhaps just the tollerance model?

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