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Community Ecology
| What is an ecological community? | All the organisms living in a habitat and interacting with each other. |
| Ecological processes include... | Predation, Competition, disturbance, herbivory, decomposition. |
| The structure of a community can be described by... | Species richness, relative abundance, species composition. |
| What is the species composition of a community? | What species are present in a community. |
| What is species richness? | A count of the number of species present. |
| What is a flaw with using species richness as a measure of quality | Species rarity or relative abundance is not taken into account. |
| Species richness tends to decrease with increasing... | Altitude. |
| Species richness tends to increase with decreasing | Latitude. |
| What is the term for the size of individual populations in a community? | Abundance. |
| What is the term given to the size of a community within a defined system? | Scale. |
| Where an organism lives is its... | Habitat. |
| How an organism lives is its... | Niche. |