Concepts
Community
Succession
Climax community
Community restoration
Habitat loss/fragmentation
Diversity
Diversity and scale
Scale
Species-area relationship
Species abundance distribution
Diversity and Latitude
Predator-Prey Interactions
One Predator, One Prey
Functional response
Prey-dependent
Zero growth isocline
Paradox enrichment
Maximum Sustained Yield
Fixed effort Harvesting
Fixed Quota harvesting
Predator Selection Among Multiple Prey
Optimal Foraging Theory
Optimal Diet Model
Competition Between Species
Exploitation Competition
Interference Competition
Resource
Apparent Competiton
Beneficial Interactions Between Species
Mutualistic Relationship
Facilitation
Nurse Plants
Primary Succesion
Metapopulations in Patchy Environments
Metapopulation
Source Habitat
Sink Habitat
Fugitive Species
Assisted Dispersal
Interconnectedness of Species: Food Chains and Food Webs
Food Chain
Food web
Energy Flow Web
Keystone Species
group of species occur together @ same place same time
predictable sequence of changes
stability returns
have minimal impact on other organisms
preserving ecosystems
community diversity
relationship b/ area and species richness
number of species abundance
effect of northern latitudes effects diversity scale
time needed to find prey and eat it
feeding rate dependent on prey density
effect of prey density on predator populations
finding balance of conditions for prey and predator
harvesting enough of a species to keep population density
amount of prey that can be harvested with a particular amount of effort
fixed number harvested with unlimited effort and time
understanding why herbivores eat some plants and not others
model based on optimal diet model
resource competition when organisms use same resource
any substance leading to increased growth rates
one organism restricts another organisms access to the resource
plants are not competing for and using the same resource
when two organisms interact such that both benefit
one organism helping another with no benefit
help younger off spring of other organism
organisms become established on newly created substrates
local populations connected by migration and gene flow
high quality patch
low quality patch
survives by colonizing new patches
capturing animals in one area and releasing in another
direct line of consumption
a network of numerous interrelationships
to trace how energy flows through the community
the presence or absence of certain species dramatically affects the structure to their community