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What is demographic stochasticity?
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Random population events that are not triggered by the changes in the environment. Like trouble finding food.
2
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What effects the probability of finding salamanders?
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Population size and the distance from the pond
3
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What is a patch extinction rate?
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It is the chance that a population occupying the patch will go extint per unit in time
Patch extinction rate = 0.5 / T1/2 per day
4
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What is metapopulation?
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Spatially distanced species of same population often connected by dispersal.
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Bio120
flashcards
Decks in class (21)
# Cards
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Lecture 4: Physiological ecology32
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lecture 334
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Lecture 5: Population ecology39
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Lecture 6: Population ecology25
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Simutext 1 : Geometric Growth6
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Simu text2: Exponential Growth15
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Lecture 7: Community Ecology27
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Lecture 8 community ecology23
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Simutext 35
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Lecture 9 community ecolgy: Mutualism37
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Lecture 9 readings37
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Island biogeography5
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10. Community ecology: Dispersal42
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11. Community and ecology: Tropic relationship35
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Reading for lec 11-1218
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Lecture 12 climate change and biodiversity18
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Pre class reading lec 131
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Lec 13: Intro to Evolution18
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Lec 14: Darwin's Big Idea21
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Chapter 2: Required reading10
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Lec 15: What darwin saw24
