1. Speed round!
Teams are you ready?

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

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

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

5. 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

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

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

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

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

10. 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