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B- Unit 3 Lesson 24
Modest Disturbances in Ecosystems
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| biodiversity | the variation among organisms in an ecosystem |
| ecosystem | all the organisms in a given area along with the nonliving things with which they interact |
| homeostasis | the process of an organism maintaining stable internal conditions despite changes to the ecosystem |
| intermediate disturbance hypothesis | the hypothesis that moderate levels of disturbance will promote a larger diversity of species over a low or high level of disturbance |
| population | all members of a particular species in a given area at a given time |
| low-level disturbances | species may tend to overspecialize; dominant species will out-compete all others for food and resources |
| high-level disturbances | species are at risk of total extinction |