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Ecological Principles
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What is Ecology?
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A combination of biotic and abiotic factors
Biotic
Abiotic
Predator-prey interactions
Salinity
Symbiotic relationships
Temperature
Competition
Pressure
Species interactions
Non-biological factors
In the real world these factors are not easily separated
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Key Ecology Terms
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Species
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Population
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Community
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Ecosystem
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How Populations Grow
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Carrying capacity
Limiting resource
Self-regulating
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Competition
Barnacle and mussels compete for space
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Intraspecific
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Interspecific
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Competitive exclusion
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Resource partitioning
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The Results of Competition
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Natural selection
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Evolution
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Niche
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Predation
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Coevolution - the
predator
evolving in
response to
adaptations of
the prey, or vice
versa
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Living Together
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Symbiosis
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Commensalism
Mutualism
Parasitism
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Ectoparasites
Endoparasites
Facultative
Obligate
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Flow of Energy
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Autotrophic
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Heterotrophic
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Primary producers
Consumers
Trophic levels
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Trophic Structure
Ecological Principles
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