200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt Double Jeopardy 100 pt Ecology Succession Fish ID Coral reefs
Populations of different species living in the same area is this.
What is a community?
Sea otters, Paine’s starfish, and krill help maintain diversity are regarded as this.
What is a keystone species?
An animal that has low mortality, few offspring, is a good competitor and has high maternal investment is this selected type.
What is K-selected?
An organisms role in an ecosystem.
What is a niche?
Similar species can co- exist in the same habitat and avoid direct competition by doing this.
What is resource partitioning (splitting the niche)?
A 100 year old reef made up of 100% Finger Coral is this particular successional species.
What is a climax species?
When trees replace grasses it is this type of succession.
What is secondary succession?
Deep reef slopes that have little disturbance result in this type of disturbance model.
What is competitive exclusion model?
The successional model on a coral reef that would yield the highest species diversity.
What is the Occasional Strong Disturbance (Intermediate Disturbance Model)?
A lava flow can cause a climax stage to return to this stage.
What is primary succession?
What is a Potter’s Anglefish?
What is Aweo Aweo?
What is a whiskered boarfish or armorhead?
What is tinker’s butterfly fish?
What is a fantail filefish?
Two ways corals compete for space on the reef.
What is overgrow, bulldoze, attack with tentacles or mesentery filaments?
An example of a reef cementer.
What is crustose coral or coraline algae?
A fish that is a major direct bioeroder on the reef.
What is a parrotfish?
Two organisms that become part of the reef sediments.
What are Fragmented Coral and Coraline Algae Foraminifera Skeletons Halimeda “Dust” Other Skeletal Debris Sponge Spicules?
The feeding strategy of a Pacific Gregory.
What is a herbivore?
Two problems associated with the removal of Acanthaster palanci.
What is fishermen chopping them up and placing them back, copper sulfate was toxic to the environment, or they smell bad when they dry?