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Population   A group of individuals of the same species that live in the same area at the same time.  
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Population Ecology   The study of how and why the number of individuals in a population changes over time.  
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Demography   The study of processes that change population size and structure, such as birth, death, migration, and dispersal.  
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Life History   The pattern of a species’ development, growth, life span, and reproduction.  
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Survivorship   The probability that an individual will survive in a given year over the course of its life time.  
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Fecundity   The number of (female) offspring produced by each female in the population.  
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Density Independent Growth   When growth rate is not affected by the number of individuals in the population.  
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Density Dependent Growth   When growth rate IS affected by the number of individuals in the population.  
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Life History Traits   How an organism allocates resources to growth, development, survival, and reproduction.  
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Fitness trade-offs   Inescapable compromises between two traits that cannot be optimized at the same time.  
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Population Growth Rate   The change in the number of individuals per unit time.  
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Carrying Capacity   The maximum population size the environment can support at a particular point in time.  
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Metapopulation   A population of populations.  
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Community   A group of interacting species in a given area.  
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Competition   When individuals use the same resources, resulting in lower fitness for both.  
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Commensalism   When one species benefits but the other species is unaffected  
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Mutualism   When species interact in such a way confers fitness benefits to both  
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Consumption   When one organism eats or absorbs nutrients from another. Increases fitness of one organism but not the other.  
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Amensalism   When one species is inhibited or destroyed and the other species is unaffected.  
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Ecological Niche   The space that a species occupies in a community, including it's range of resources and range of tolerable conditions.  
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Habitat   Where an organism is found  
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Fundamental Niche   The total range of ecological conditions allowing an organism to persist.  
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Realized Niche   The total range of ecological conditions under which an organism actually persists in nature.  
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Neutral Interaction   When niches overlap, species have no effect on each other  
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Positive Interaction   When niches overlap, at least one species is positively affected by the other.  
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Negative Interaction   When niches overlap, coexistence has negative effects on one or both species.  
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Competitive Exclusion   Two different species cannot occupy the identical ecological niche without one out-competing the other.  
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Character Displacement   The evolutionary change that occurs in species' traits and that enables species to exploit different resources.  
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Niche Differentiation   An evolutionary change in resource use, caused by competition over generations.  
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Evolutionary Arms-Race   When prey are constantly developing new defenses against predators and predators are constantly developing new weapons to consume them.  
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Herbivory   When herbivores consume plant tissues.  
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Parasitism   When a parasite consumes tissue or nutrients from its host.  
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Predation   When a predator kills and consumes all or most of another individual.  
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Constitutive Defenses   A defense that is always on, regardless of if a predator is present.  
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Mimicry   A species resembling another.  
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Batesian Mimicry   When a harmless or palatable species resembles a dangerous or poisonous species.  
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Mullerian Mimicry   When a dangerous or poisonous species resembles another dangerous or poisonous species.  
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Inducible Defenses   When a defense can be turned on or off depending on the danger.  
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Bernard Kettlewell   Old Guy that looked at camouflage in moths.  
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Succession   The recovery that follows a severe disturbance.  
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Primary Succession   When a disturbance removes the soil and its organisms, as well as organisms that live above the surface.  
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Secondary Succession   When a disturbance removes some or all of the organisms from an area but leaves the soil intact.  
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Successional Pathway   The specific sequence of species that appears over time.  
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Pioneering Species   The first organisms to arrive at a newly disturbed site.  
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Climax Species   Species that are dominant in late successional communities.  
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Facilitation   When early-arriving species make conditions more favorable for the arrival of certain later species.  
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Tolerance   When existing species do not affect the probability that subsequent species will become established.  
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Inhibition   When the presence of one species inhibits the establishment of another.  
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Keystone Species   A species that has a much greater impact on the surrounding specie than its abundance and biomass would suggest.  
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Disturbance   Any event that removes some individuals or biomass from a community.  
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Disturbance Regime   The characteristic and predictable type of disturbance that a community will experience.  
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Endemic Species   Species that are found in a specific area and nowhere else.  
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Conservation Hot Spots   Areas with at least 1500 endemic vascular plant species and less than 70% of primary vegetation remaining.  
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Habitat Fragmentation   The breakup of large, contiguous areas of natural habitat into small isolated pieces.  
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Interference Competition   Takes place if an organism actively interferes with the ability of another organism to take up resources.  
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Scramble Competition   Takes place if an organism reduces the amount of resources available for another organism.  
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G. Evelyn Hutchinson   Old guy associated with the concept of an ecological niche.  
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Charles Krebs   Old guy who did experiment with Hare populations to see how they were affected by predation and resource availability.  
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Joseph Connell   Old guy who tested competitive exclusion theory on barnacle populations.  
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Frederic E. Clements   Old guy who suggested that community structure is highly predictable about which species will occur together and which will not.  
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Henry A. Gleason   Old guy who suggested that community structure is actually random and will form based on species' mutualistic needs.  
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Jim Estes   Old guy associated with killer whales eating otters instead of seals and sea lions, which leads to more starfish and less kelp forests.  
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Robert Paine   Old guy associated with keystone predators. He removed starfish from an area and mussels began to grow very rapidly and affect nearby species.  
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