| Biology
321, Ecology |
Dr.
Chris Paradise, Davidson College |
List
of concepts with which you should be familiar for the Final Exam (in alphabetical
order). Note that many concepts are repeated from earlier reviews. Concepts
in BOLD are from material since last review.
- 10% rule of thumb
- Age class
- Age-structured population
growth models
- Assimilation
- Balance
of nature
- Biomass
- Carbon cycle
- Carrying capacity
- Chain length
- Colonization
- Community
ecology
- Community food webs
- Comparative
approach
- Conditional strategy
- Connectance
- Connectivity
- Conservation ecology
- Cultural
lens
- Demography
- Density dependence
- Density independence
- Design of park reserves
- Distribution
and dispersion
- Ecological efficiency
- Ecosystem function (e.g.,
primary productivity)
- Efficiency
- Energy as a currency
(energy maximization)
- Energy Budget
- Energy flow
- Energy pyramids
- Equilibrium
and nonequilibrium
- Evolutionarily Stable
Strategy (ESS)
- Exotic predators
- Experimental design
- Exponential growth
- Extent
- Extinction
- Factors limiting primary
and secondary productivity
- Functional response
- Fundamental niche
- Game Theory
- Grain
- Habitats as islands
- Habitat diversity
- Habitat
heterogeneity
- Handling and pursuit
of prey
- Human impacts on nutrient
cycles
- Immigration
- Interaction strength
- Intermediate
disturbance
- Island biogeography
- Keystone species
- Landscape
ecology
- Law of tolerance
- Life expectancy
- Life
history traits
- Life tables
- Limiting factors
- Linkage density
- Logistic, or density-dependent
growth
- MacArthur-Wilson model
of island biogeography
- Master factor
- Mating systems
- Metapopulation
- Metapopulation dynamics
- Models in landscape and
ecosystem ecology
- Monogamy
- Natural
selection
- Niche
- Nitrogen cycle
- Null and alternative
(=research) hypotheses
- Nutrient cycling
- Optimal foraging
- Optimization
- Patch model
- Phosphorus cycle
- Polygamy, polygyny,
and polyandry
- Population
biology
- Population dynamics
- Population growth
- Population regulation
- Predator-prey dynamics
- Primary productivity
(gross and net)
- P:R and P:B ratios
- P-value
- Random
sample
- Rate of change
- Realized niche
- Replication
- Rescue effect
- Resilience
- Resistance
- Resistance allele
- Scale-dependence
and scale-independence
- Scope for growth
- Secondary productivity
(gross and net)
- Sink food webs
- Sink patches
- SLOSS
- Source food webs
- Spatial and temporal
scales
- Species turnover
- Source patches
- Stability
- Stochastic population
growth and models
- Strong and weak interactions
- Succession,
primary and secondary
- Survivorship curves
(Type I, II, and III)
- Target effect
- Time as a currency
(time minimization)
- Tolerance, Inhibition,
and Facilitation Models of Succession
- Trophic Levels
- Page last updated October 21, 2001 by Chris Paradise