List of concepts with which you should be familiar for Review 1 (in alphabetical order - as of September 3)

• Balance of nature
• Community ecology
• Comparative approach
• Cultural lens
• Distribution and dispersion
• Ecosystem function (e.g., primary productivity)
• Equilibrium and nonequilibrium
• Experimental design
• Habitat heterogeneity
• Intermediate disturbance
• Life history traits
• Natural selection
• Null and alternative (=research) hypotheses
• P-value
• Population biology
• Random sample
• Replication
• Resilience
• Resistance
• Scale-dependence and scale-independence
• Stability
• Succession, primary and secondary
• Tolerance, Inhibition, and Facilitation Models of Succession