Wes 230 Exam 2

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Recruitment

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Taking a new speicies into an area intentionaly

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Habitat

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Environment where organisms live, Biotic and Abiotic

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Food use and components

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growth, maintenance, energy of metabolism

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Measures of basal metabolism rate

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thermal neutral zone, measured an empty stomach at rest

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Endothermy

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internal heat

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Ectothermy

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External heat

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poikilothermy

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changes temp to environment

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homeothem

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constant heat (person)

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Heterotherm

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Switches to own environment (humming birds/bears)

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Use of fat

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High Energy, good for storage

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Use of carbo

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Energy in sugars

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Use of protiens

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Growth

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Importance of water

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thermoregulation, metabolism, gestation+egg devel

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Generalist

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Omnivore. will eat anything

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specialist

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herbivore, carnivor

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facultative

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use of what you have

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obligate

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one food source (cat)

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Stereotyed

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Narrow and predictive

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Plastic

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flexable

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key stratagies for food storage

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toper, migration, broden diet, hoarding, dormancy

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Intra

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with in same speices

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Inter

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different speices

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how do species avoid competition

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Resource Partitioning

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Cover

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protect against weather and predators

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4 forms of heat loss

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radiation, evaporated, conduction, convection

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behavioral thermoregulation

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1)behavioral: basking, migration, nocturnal, shade

2)Physiological: Metabolism, water

3)Morphological: impervious skin, low surface area, spines that slow evaporation

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Avoid predation

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1)cryptic coloration: object resemblance, camouflage

2)Chemical defense

3)Armor Defense

4)Group Defense

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types of predation

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1)Ambush

2) lay in wait (least energy)

3)stalking

4) Pursuit

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popualtion

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group of individual species in a specific area

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number

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count

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density

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#/area (all species)

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**** Rate of Change

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(Birth-Death) + (immigration -emigration)

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N(pop.size)

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**Fossorial

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Lives under ground

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**Subniriant

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Lives under the snow

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birth rate (natality)

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# born at any given time

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Death rate (mortality)

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# Deaths

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Age Structure

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# of individual/age class

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sex ratio

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male vs female

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recruitment

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addition of new numbers to the group (birth, immigration)

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Survivorship curves

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Look at graph!!!!

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Exponential growth

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rapid rise with no leveling out

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Logistic growth

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rise with leveling out after hitting carrying capacity

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carrying capacity

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limit of supportable population

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Mating Systems

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1)manogamy: 1 partner

2)Polygamy: 1 male, many females

3)Polyandry: 1 females, Many males

4)Indiscriminate: many partners

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R-selected speiceis

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ex. fish

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K-selected

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Ex. Elephant

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types of density dependence

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1) external: limited resources, predatation, disease

2)internal: social behavior, reproduction and physiological response

Def: a factor whose effect on population

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Density indipendent

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Forest fire, natural disasters

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compensatory mortality

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taking a life that was going to die anyway

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additive mortality

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adding the mortality rate

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MVP

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minimum viability pop.

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Human pop

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How many

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biospher

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climate rate

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biome

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Large terrestrial region characterized by similar weather, climate, animals, plant life; determined by precipitation, median temp.

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% of land covered by tropical rainforest

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2%

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% of biodiversity it has

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50%

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pioneer stage

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very beginning of new forest after disturbances

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degradation

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ruining habitats slowly----leading cause of extinction

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destruction

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gone in total

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culfirated ecosystem

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making a synthetic ecosystem

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maximusustained yield

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greatest # of species we can take without disturbing the reproduction