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WHAT ARE THE 6 TYPES OF
ECOLOGICAL STUDY?
• Organismal, population, community, ecosystem, landscape and global
LOW JUVENILE MORTALITY IS WHAT
KIND OF SURVIVORSHIP?
• Type 1
• Example: elephants!
WHAT TYPE OF POPULATION GROWTH
IS DENSITY-INDEPENDENT?
• Exponential
• Logistic is density-dependent
MAXIMUM GROWTH RATE IS
INFLUENCED BY WHAT CONDITIONS?
• Age of reproduction
• Number of young per reproductive effort
• Time between production of young
• Survival of young
WHAT IS THE LOGISTIC GROWTH
EQUATION?
• N/t  rmaxN((K – N)/K)
• What kind of curve do we see with this?
• S curve
WHAT FACTORS COULD LIMIT THE
POPULATION GROWTH OF HUMANS?
• Food
• Space
• Nonrenewable resources
WHAT IS THE DEFINITION OF A
COMMUNITY?
• An assemblage of all species in an area that live close enough to one
another to interact
WHAT IS SPECIES RICHNESS?
• total number of species, regardless of abundance
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
REALIZED NICHE AND FUNDAMENTAL
NICHE?
• Fundamental niches have resources that the species need or can tolerate in
an absence of species interactions, whereas the realized niche is in the
presence of species interactions