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APS 123 - Populations

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By: Harriet Brooks
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Decks in this class (17)

Lecture 1 - life cycles to life histories
Definition of organismal ecology,
Definition of population,
Definition of population ecology
24  cards
life table
Sx,
Lx,
Mx
4  cards
lecture 3 - intra and interspecific competition
Logistic equilibrium equation,
Logistic growth equation,
What is a logistic model
9  cards
lecture 5 - competition and predation
Definition of scramble competition,
Definition of contest competition,
Definition of diet width
10  cards
lecture 6 - diet and predation
What is the marginal value theorem,
What is the function of a tangent...,
Definition of ideal free distribu...
6  cards
Lecture 7 - patches, diets and food webs
What is diet breadth width,
What predicts diet breadth,
Definition of connectance
6  cards
lecture 8 - cascades, disease and mutualism
What is a trophic cascade,
Micro parasites,
Macro parasites
8  cards
lecture 9 - species area relationship
What does species richness mean,
What is alpha diversity,
What is gamma diversity
6  cards
lecture 10 - island biogeography
Isolation and area relationships,
What determines species richness ...,
Nestedness
3  cards
lecture 11- macroecology
What is macroecology,
What is the latitudinal diversity...,
2 main categories that drive the ...
14  cards
lecture 12 - reserve design
What is the sloss debate,
Sloss summary,
Definition of species turnover
9  cards
lecture 13 - oil palm
How long does it take to recoup e...,
How long does it take to recoup e...,
What is functional diversity
6  cards
lecture 15 - adapting to climate change
Definition of thermal tolerance,
Definition of phenology,
Benefits of change in phenology
6  cards
lecture 14 - climate and species
Definition of a species climate n...,
Bioclimate envelope models bem al...,
5 stages of producing bem
4  cards
Directed reading - macarthur paper
Five species of warbler,
Definition of congeneric,
How can coexistence occur
24  cards
Spider paper notes
The lizard effect,
Slope of species area is greater ...
2  cards
other key notes
Exploitation competition,
Modes of interactions between spe...,
What is mutualism
9  cards

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