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What are the 6 types of Ecological study? Organismal, population, community, ecosystem, landscape and global

Low juvenile mortality is what kind of survivorship? Type 1 Example: elephants!

What type of population growth is density-independent? Exponential Logistic is density-dependent

Maximum growth rate is influenced by what conditions? Age of reproduction Number of young per reproductive effort Time between production of young Survival of young

What is the logistic growth equation? N/t  rmaxN((K – N)/K) What kind of curve do we see with this? S curve

What factors could limit the population growth of humans? Food Space Nonrenewable resources

What is the definition of a community? An assemblage of all species in an area that live close enough to one another to interact

What is species richness? total number of species, regardless of abundance

What is the difference between realized niche and fundamental niche? Fundamental niches have resources that the species need or can tolerate in an absence of species interactions, whereas the realized niche is in the presence of species interactions