Community Ecology Flashcards

Group of different species within a set space that interact and impart change onto each other.

Study of how the different species within a community interact to create a functional existence.

A species will spread itself out within a given space according to its specific tolerance range.

<p>Life cycle characteristics, interactions with other species, personal abilities to survive in certain abiotic conditions.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The species complement of a community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mostly major changes in biotic or abiotic environment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The interface between communities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caused by gradient changes in the environment, resulting in the bleeding together of different communities.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The role of a particular species within a community, incorporating all biotic and abiotic considerations.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Habitat, food sources, predator/prey relationships.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The potential ecological niche that an organism could inhabit if no restricting species were present.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The true ecological niche that an organism settles for within a community of interacting species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Competition, mutualism, predation/parasitism, commensalism, amensalism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

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<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When two or more organisms contend for resources including food, shelter, water, space, etc.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interspecific = Occurs between different species. Intraspecific = Occurs within the same species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurs between populations of different species.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Occurs within a population.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Organisms compete for the same nutrients.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Interconnecting roots from multiple trees compete for nutrient uptake.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Two species cannot share the same niche for an indefinite amount of time; eventually one will force the other to adopt a new niche or die.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>True</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Mechanical defenses, safety in numbers, coloration, mimicry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Physiological hardware for defense.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Creation of group protection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Cryptic or warning coloration.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Müllerian and Batesian mimicry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When a form of harmful prey mimics the appearance of another harmful prey.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Wasp and bumblebee both have characteristic coloring.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When benign prey mimics the appearance of harmful prey.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Hornet moth is harmless, but is shaded similarly to a wasp.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The co-evolution of species as a result of close association.</p> Signup and view all the answers