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Carrying capacity |
Maximum population of a particular species that a given habitat can support over a given period. |
Maximum population |
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Coevolution |
Evolution in which two or more species interact and exert selective pressures on each other that can lead each species to undergo adaptations. |
Evolution |
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Commensalism |
Interaction between organisms of different species in which one type of organism benefits and the other type is neither helped nor harmed to any great degree |
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Ecological succession |
Process in which communities of plant and animal species in a particular area are replaced over time by a series of different and often more complex communities. |
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Environmental resistance |
All of the limiting factors that act together to limit the growth of a population. |
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Immigration |
Migration of people into country or area to take up permanent residence. |
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Inertia (persistence) |
The ability of a living system such as grassland or a forest to survive moderate disturbances. |
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Interspecific competition |
Attempts by members of two or more species to use the same limited resources in an ecosystem. |
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Limiting factor |
Single factor that limits the growth, abundance, or distribution of the population of a species in an ecosystem. |
Factors that limits |
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Logistic growth |
Pattern in which exponential population growth occurs when the population is small, and population growth decreases steadily with time as the population approaches the carrying capacity. |
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Mutualism |
Type of species interaction in which both participating species generally benefit. |
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Parasitism |
Interaction between species in which one organism, called the parasite, preys on another organism, called the host, by living on or in the host. |
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Persistence |
The abiity of a living system such as grassland or a forest to survive moderate disturbances |
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Population density |
Number of organisms in a particular population found in a specified area or volume. |
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Predator |
Organism that captures and feeds on some or all parts of an organism of another species. |
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Predator-prey relationship |
Relationship that has evolved between two organisms, in which one organism has become the prey for the other, the latter called the predator. |
PPR |
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Primary ecological succession |
Ecological succession in an area without soil or bottom sediments. |
ecological succession |
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Resilience |
The ability of a living system to be restored through secondary succession after a more severe disturbance. |
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Resource partitioning |
Process of dividing up resources in an ecosystem so that species with similar needs (overlapping ecological niches) use the same scarce resources at different times, in different ways, or in different places. |
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Secondary ecological succession |
Ecological succession in an area in which natural vegetation has been removed or destroyed but the soil or bottom sediment has not been destroyed. |
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