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Lecture 1 & 2: What is Ecology?
What is ecology,
How do we define an organism indi...,
Levels of organismal complexity
39
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Lecture 3 & 4: Organisms - Adaptation to the physical environment
What is heritable variation,
What is natural selection,
What are adaptations
44
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Lecture 5: Organisms: Convergent environmental adaptation & terrestrial biomes
What is a biome,
How are biomes and convergent evo...,
How do you define biomes by their...
26
cards
Lecture 6: Organisms: Convergence in fresh water & marine systems
The four types of freshwater aqua...,
Flowing water rivers and streams,
Lotic systems
36
cards
Lecture 7: Populations: Natural selection & evolution
Define population,
Define species,
Define natural selection
29
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Lecture 8: Populations: Characteristics & Structure
Define populations in a genetic view,
Range of ecological consequences ...,
Ecological consequence suitable h...
21
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Lecture 9: Populations: Population growth & regulation
Per capita phenomenon,
Total population growth,
The bigger the population size wh...
43
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Lecture 10: Populations: Growth potential, limits, & dynamics
Density independent factors,
Negative density dependent factors,
Why would a population become sel...
27
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Lecture 11: Populations: Dynamics of consumer-resource populations
What have ecologists developed to...,
3 modeling approaches with increa...,
Define metapopulation model
42
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Lecture 12: Communities: Species interactions
Define community,
All organisms that do not photosy...,
Predator prey interactions
36
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Lecture 13: Communities: Competition & coexistence
Define parasitiods,
Define parasites,
Define ectoparasites
37
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Lecture 14: Communities: Asymmetry & context of competition
Resource,
Intraspecific competition,
Interspecific competition
24
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Lecture 15: Communities: Community Structure
Basic definition of community,
What is a more detailed definitio...,
Research on how communities are s...
36
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Lecture 16: Communities: Succession
Define succession,
Exact community composition is dy...,
Define climax community
37
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Lecture 17: Ecosystems: Energy transfer and Net Primary Production (NPP)
Define ecosystem,
What is the unique process seen a...,
What is the primary energy transf...
50
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Lecture 18: Ecosystems: Water cycle, carbon cycle, & nitrogen cycle
Major physical and biological pro...,
Water movement is therefore a ___...,
Direct human impacts on the water...
40
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Lecture 19: Ecosystems: Phosphorus cycle, terrestrial nutrient regeneration
What element is essential as buil...,
Nitrogen exists in ______________...,
Most nitrogen is found in the atm...
62
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Lecture 20: Ecosystems: Aquatic nutrient regeneration & landscape ecology
In aquatic systems biochemical __...,
Main difference is that in aquati...,
Most nutrient regeneration in aqu...
50
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Lecture 21: Biodiversity & Global Ecology: Global biodiversity & history
Define biodiversity,
Biodiversity research is especial...,
Gradients of global plant diversi...
55
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Lecture 22: Biodiversity & Global Ecology: Biodiversity equilibrium
________________ seen as an _____...,
4 broad factors that add and subt...,
4 broad factors that add and subt...
47
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Lecture 23: Biodiversity & Global Ecology: Studying biodiversity
Tools for studying biodiversity,
Tools for studying biodiversity f...,
Tools for studying biodiversity i...
49
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Lecture 24: Biodiversity & Global Ecology: Biodiversity and humans
To understand modern patterns of ...,
The historical pattern of extinct...,
There have been _________________...
43
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Lecture 25: Biodiversity & Global Ecology: Biodiversity conservation
The central goal of habitat prote...,
Minimum viable population vmp the...,
______________ that each allow mv...
34
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