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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Home Range | The area within an individual typically travels in its daily activities |
| Territoriality | an area that an individual will defend from others of its kind |
| Dispersion | The spatial distribution of individuals within a population |
| Random | may occur for species without social tendencies and where there is little variation in the environment |
| Clumped | May occur with territorial species |
| Migration | Seasonal movements involving two way movement along the same route |
| Dispersal | Outward movement of individuals away from their established area of activity |
| Immigration | individual moving into a population |
| Emigration | individual leaving a population |
| Landscape Ecology | study of structure, function and change in landscapes |
| Landscape | heterogenous area composed of interacting habitats or ecosystems |
| Emergent properties | some patterns that can only be seen when we look at larger spatial scales |
| Habitat Selection | Use of a habitat in proportion to its availability in the environment |
| Preferred | Use greater than availibility |
| Not Preferred | Use less than availability |
| Johnson's 1st Order Geographic | where a species is located in comparison to the area available |
| Johnson's 2nd Order Population Scale | where a population is located within the geographical range of the species |
| Johnson's 3rd Order Home Range | where an individual locates its home range within the range of the population |
| Johnson's 4th Order Individual Movement | what habitats an individual uses within its homerange |
| Habitat Loss | reduction in the area of the remaining habitat |
| Habitat Fragmentation | seperation of once continous habitat into smaller more isolated components |
| Habitat Degradation | A reduction in the ability of an area of habitat to provide for the needs of species/community/ecosystem |
| Fragmentation | Cut in half; linear |
| Patch | an area of habitat within a landscape that differs from other surrounding areas |
| Edge Effect | A change in the biotic or abiotic structure of habitat due to proximity to the edge of a patch |
| Corridors | relatively narrow strip of suitable habitat onnecting 2 or more otherwise isolated patches |
| Connectiity | the degree to which one path/population is connected to another |
| Metapopulation | population of local populations |
| Population | a group fo organisms of the same species that breed and live in the same place at the same time |
| Population dynamics | study of changes in populations overtime and the factors that cause these changes |
| Vital Rates | Birth, Death, Growth |
| Natality | birth or hatching, commonly expressed as the number of young produced within a specific period of time |
| Recruitment | number of young produced that reach reproductive maturity |
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