Chapter 6 APES
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Population | show 🗑
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Community | show 🗑
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Population Ecology | show 🗑
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Population Size (N) | show 🗑
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show | The number of individuals per unit area at a given time.
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show | A description of how individuals are distributed with respect to one another.
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Sex ratio | show 🗑
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Age Structure | show 🗑
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Limiting Resource | show 🗑
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Density-dependent factor | show 🗑
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show | A factor that has the same effect on an individuals probability of survival and the amount of reproduction at any population size.
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Carrying capacity (K) | show 🗑
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Population growth models | show 🗑
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Population growth rate | show 🗑
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show | The max. potential for growth of a population under ideal conditions with unlimited resources.
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show | A growth model that estimates a population's future size after a period of time based on the intrinsic growth rate and the number of reproducing individuals currently in the population.
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show | The curve of the exponential growth model when graphed.
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show | A growth model that describes a population whose growth in initially exponential, but slows as the population approaches the carrying capacity of the environment.
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S-Curve | show 🗑
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Overshoot & Die-off | show 🗑
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show | A species with a low intrinsic growth rate that causes the population to increase slowly until it reaches carrying capacity.
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r-selected species | show 🗑
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show | A graph that represents the distinct patterns of species survival as a function of age.
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Metapopulation | show 🗑
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show | an agricultural method in which land is cleared and used for a few years until the soil is depleted of nutrients.
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desertification | show 🗑
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show | the feeding of herds of animals by moving them to seasonally productive feeding grounds, often over long distances
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sustainable agriculture | show 🗑
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intercropping | show 🗑
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show | an agricultural technique in which crop species in a field are rotated from season to season
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agroforestry | show 🗑
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contour plowing | show 🗑
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perennial vs annual plant | show 🗑
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show | an agricultural method in which farmers do not turn the soil between seasons as a means of reducing topsoil erosion
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show | an agricultural practice that uses a variety of techniques designed to minimize pesticide inputs
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organic agriculture | show 🗑
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Individual Transfer Quota (ITQ) | show 🗑
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aquaculture | show 🗑
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