Chapter 53: Community Ecology

Reading Guide, Page 1159, 7^th edition

 

Identify the following. Be as specific as possible, and include names, dates, and relevant facts as appropriate. Be sure to explain the significance of the term.

 

53.1 Community’s Interactions

1. Interspecific Interactions
2. Competition and the competitive exclusion principle
3. Ecological niches
4. Resource partitioning
5. Allopatric vs sympatric
6. Predation
7. Defensive adaptations
8. Predator adaptations
9. Batesian vs Mullerian mimicry
10. Herbivory: Why is it not that bad?
11. Parasites: endo and exo
12. Pathogens and give an example
13. Mutualism
14. Commensalism

 

53.2 Dominant and Keystone species

1. Species diversity and its components
2. Trophic structure
3. Food web
4. ID the limits on food chain length
5. Dominant species à biomass.
6. Invasive species
7. Keystone species

 

53.3 Disturbance influences

1. Define disturbance
2. Intermediate disturbance hypothesis
3. Yellowstone fires
4. Human disturbance
5. Primary and secondary ecological succession

 

53.4 Biogeographic Factors

1. Equatorial polar gradients: two factors
2. Species-area curve
3. Island equilibrium model

 

53.5 Contrasting Views

1. Integrated vs Individualistic Hypotheses
2. Rivet vs Redundancy Model