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the process of estimating, beyond the original observation range, the value of a variable on the basis of its relationship with another variable.
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This is concerned with where organisms are found.
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These tell you why species are found in a defined area.
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The rmax species have large numbers of young but poorly developed young due to low cost of ________. They have high mortality, low survival, are smaller in size, experience rapid growth, mature early and have a short life span. Think cockroach.
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populations experiencing _____ growth will keep growing in size at a faster and faster rate.
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The ______ of a community tells you what species of animals and plants there are.
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Random, uniformed and clumped are examples of the population ______.
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All the individuals of a species within a defined area.
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Determines if there is an order in which the organisms in a community grows.
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Tells you which species are important in determining the nature of the community.
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Several different species occurring together within a defined area.
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the actual reproductive rate of an organism or population, measured by the number of gametes (eggs), seed set, or asexual propagules.
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A community together with its nonliving surroundings.
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The part of Earth inhabited by living organisms, both the living and the non-living components.
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This is concerned with how many organisms occur in a defined space.
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The __________ capacity of a biological species in an environment is the maximum population size of the species that the environment can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.
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____ abundance tells you how many of each species are represented in that community and in what proportion.
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Growth in an S-shaped pattern is known as ______ growth.
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A path along which one counts and records occurrences of the species of study
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The k species have small numbers of young, highly developed young due to parental care and high cost of reproduction, low mortality, high survival, slow, _______, are larger in size, have slow growth and have a longer life span.
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When you measure this difference, you are looking at changes of population over time.
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When you measure this difference, you are looking at changes of populations in different areas.
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This form of sampling involves counting all individuals within a known area (or volume).
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A natural group of organisms that can interbreed.
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The study of interactions between an organism and its environment (both physical and biological).
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This index is used to measure populations that move. By marking and recapturing them. Total = (captured second time *number marked first time)/recapture marked.
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__ structure tells you who eats whom
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These forms of interactions are between the organism and factors like sunlight, water and temperature.
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In the mark and recapture method, you are assuming that marked animals are not affected, marked animals are not mixed, the probability of recapture is the same, population is _______, there are no births or deaths and capture is age and sex independent.
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describes how an organism or population responds to the distribution of resources and competitors (for example, by growing when resources are abundant, and when predators, parasites and pathogens are scarce) and how it in turn alters those same factors (for example, limiting access to resources by other organisms, acting as a food source for predators and a consumer of prey).
