ENV 301 Biodiversity and Population Ecology
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| Birth within the population | Natality
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| Death within the population | Mortality
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| Arrival of individuals from outside the population... | Immigration
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| Departure of individuals from the population... | Emigration
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| Growth Rote = | Crude Birth Rate + Immigration Rate - (Crude Death Rate + Emigration)
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| Physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the environment that restrain population growth: | Limiting Factors
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| Interaction of limiting factors is commonly is referred as: | Carrying Capacity
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| Curve that rises sharply at first but then begins to level off as the effect of limiting factors become stronger: | Growth Curve
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| The forces that stabilize population size and carrying capacity: | Environmental Resistance
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| Common examples of Limiting Factors: | Water, Space, Food, Disease
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| Biotic potential based on quantity not quality: | r-selected
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| Biotic potential based on devoting large amount of energy and resource to caring for and protecting the relatively few offspring - | K-Selected
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| Disappearance of species from Earth: | Extinction
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| Sum total of all organisms in an area: | Biodiversity
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| Population or group of populations whose members share certain characteristics and can freely breed with one another and produce entire offspring: | Species
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| Group of individuals that live in the same area: | Population
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| The process by which new species are generated is termed: | Speciation
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