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What law states that 2 species cannot co-exist on one limiting resource
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Gause's law
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What type of competition is mainly in Gause's law
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interspecific
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What law states that in any environment the growth rate of the population is limited by the most limiting resource.
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Liebig's law
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what are the two mechanism of competition?
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interferene and exploitative
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What type of competition is when better suited org have an adaptation that allows them to get more resources.
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explotative
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What does alpha12>1 mean
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that species 2 is a better competitor than species 1.
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WHat is true of any point on the line of a zero growth isocline?
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That the growth rate= 0
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what is the change of the behavior of a single preditor to the change in prety density?
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functional response
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What is the long term change in preditor density in response to prey density?
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numberical response
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What is it called when plants grow more so that even though they are being eaten they don't show any affect because of the herbivory?
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compensation
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what type of species interaction is good for the actor and has no effect on the the recipiant?
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commensalism?
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What is when two organisms look similiar?
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mimicry
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What type of mimicry is characterized by a toxic model and a non toxic mimic?
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Batesian
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What type of mimicry is characterized by both species like alike and both species benefit from mimicry?
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Mullerian
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_______- is a taxonimically related group of organisms that occur in same habitat. There are no interactions between the organisms.
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assemblage
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_____- is a group of organisms that alll play the same role in an environment.
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guild
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think trade union
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species richness, measure of species diversity, eveness, and types of species all make up _________.
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community structure
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What are 3 main things that are part of community function?
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trophic relationships, resiliency, and preductivity.
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Who believed in closed communtites
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Clements
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Who believed in open communities and that species are that species are distributed independent of eaach othe
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Gleason
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What are the two big scales on can look @ community structure?
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spatial and temporal
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what are the two catagories under spatial scale that a community structure can be analyzed?
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local and landscape
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the correlation coeffecient vs radius of circles graph shows what?
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how species richness is correlated in diff habitats.
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What term describes how when organisms that live in similiar habitats even when they are on different continents have similiar morphologies?
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convergence
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what type community development interaction (facilitation, inhabition, or tolerance) do u usually see in primary succession?
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facilitation
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Do u usually see facilitation, inhabition, and/or tolerance in secondary succession?
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tolerance and inhabition
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What describes how preditors can hold prey populations well below carrying capactiy (starvation level)
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preditor regulation
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In preditor regulation what is the relationship between quality of living and quality of eaten.
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living= eaten
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What is the relationship between quality of living and eaten in surplus preditation?
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quality living > quality of eaten=starving
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What is the relationship between quality of living and eaten in predation sensative food hypothesis?
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living> eaten (close to starving) > starving
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What must prety have in order for there to be preditor/ prey cycles?
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prey must have a place to hide.
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What is the kind of experimnent where you take organisms from two differnt environments and then raise them both in same environment?
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common garden exp
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