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11 Cards in this Set
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community |
an association of interacting species living in a particular area |
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community structure |
attributes of a community |
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equilibrium |
a state of balance in a system in which opposing factors cancel each other
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guild |
a group of organism that make their living a certain way
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intermediate disturbance hypothesis |
a proposal that high diversity is maintained by changing environmental conditions and that highest levels of diversity will occur at intermediate levels of disturbance
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life-form |
of a plant is a combination of its structure and its growth dynamics |
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lognormal distribution |
a distribution of relative abundances of species produced by plotting the abundance of species as a frequency distribution in which each abundance interval is twice the preceding one
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rank -abundance curve |
a curve that portrays the number of species in a community and their relative abundance |
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species diversity |
a measure of diversity that increases with species evenness and species richness |
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species evenness |
the relative abundance of species in a community or collection
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species richness |
the number of species in a community or collection |
