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13 Cards in this Set
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What are the different population interactions?
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Neutral, Mutualism, Commensalism, Competition, Predation, Parasitism, Parasitoidism.
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According to Biological Structure, when a single or few species predominate within a community, these organisms are called?
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Dominants.
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This species controls the nature of the community and must be regarded as the dominant species.
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Keystone Species.
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By taking a sample of the species in a community and determine the percentage each contributes to the total number, we can determine what?
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Relative Abundance.
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What does species diversity relate to?
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Species Richness (number) and Species Eveness (how individuals are apportioned).
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A discriptive diagram using a series of arrows to depict one species to another for which it is a food source.
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Food chain.
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A discriptive diagram involving numerous food chains meshed into a complex depiction.
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Food web.
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What determines the vertical structure on land?
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The life form of the plants.
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What determines the vertical structure of aquatic ecosystems?
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Light penetration.
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Changes in the physical and biological structure of communities as you move across the landscape are refered to as?
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Zonation.
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Gradual directional change in the structure of the community through time (temporal) from field to forest?
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Succession.
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What type of succession occurs on a site previously unoccupied.
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Primary.
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What type of succession occurs on a previously occupied site?
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Secondary.
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