Chapter 21: Community Ecology
- Know the difference between the four types of species interactions: competition, consumption, mutualism, commensalism. Give examples of each.
- What is the difference between intraspecific and interspecific competition.
- What happens to intraspecific competition as the population density increases?
- What is the niche model of speciation.
- What is the competitive exclusion principle.
- What is the difference between asymmetric and symmetric competition?
- What is the difference between a fundamental and a realized niche?
- The niche differentiation hypothesis suggests that natural selection favors what?
- List three types of consumption.
- What are some defenses against consumption?
- What is the purpose of mimicry?
- What in the world is pseudocopulation mimicry?
- Be able to explain the coevolutionary arms race. What traits do predators tend to evolve? What traits do prey tend to evolve?
- What is the difference between top-down vs. bottom-up hypothesis of herbirvore control?
- What are some examples of mutualisms?
- What is an ecological disturbance?
- What is a disturbance regime?
- What factors affect a disturbance regime?
- What is ecological succession?
- What is difference between primary and secondary succession?
- What do early successional communities composed of?
- What characteristics do r-selected species share? What adaptations do r-selected species have?
- What characteristics to K-selected species share? What adaptations to K-selected species have?
- What is a climax community?
- What did Clements hypothesize about climax communities?
- What predictions do the theory of island biogeography propose?
