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22 Cards in this Set
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A group of individuals of the same species inhabiting a specific area?
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Population.
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Rates in a population?
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Birthrate, Growthrate, and Deathrate.
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Defines us as individuals?
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Our unitary nature.
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Individual tree or plant produced by sexual reproduction, thus arising from a zygote is a individual or
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Genet.
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Individual modules produced asexually by the genet.
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Ramets.
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A group of trees produced by a genet.
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Mott.
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The area in which an organism occurs.
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Distribution
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Refers to an organisms numbers or population size.
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Abundance.
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The number of individuals per unit of space.
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Crude Density.
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Actual location or place where an organism lives.
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Habitat.
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The number of individuals per unit of available living space.
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Ecological Density.
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How organisms are distributed over space is known as.
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Dispersion.
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Individuals of a population are distributed.
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Randomly, Uniformly, or in Clumps.
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The most common dispersion type.
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Clumped Dispersion.
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The movement of individuals in a space.
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Dispersal.
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Types of dispersal.
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Emigration, Immigration, and Migration.
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When individuals move out of a given population.
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Emigration.
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When individuals move in to a given population.
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Immigration.
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When individuals move out of a given population and then return.
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Migration.
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The proportion of the various age classes in a population at a given time.
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Age structure.
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How can you determine the approximate age of trees in which growth is seasonal?
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Annual growth rings.
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Populations of sexually reproducing organisms in theory tend toward what sex ratio
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a ratio of 1:1
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