Ecology Population

Cards (12)

  • is the study of organisms, populations, and communities as they relate to one another and interact in the ecosystems they comprise?
    ecology
  • sustain life-supporting functions and produce natural capital, such as biomass production, regulation of climate, global biogeochemical cycles, water filtration, soil formation, erosion control, and flood protection?
    ecosystem
  • is a group of individuals that belong to the same species that live in a particular area at a particular time?
    population
  • are organisms or an individual organism that can interbreed with its own kind?
    species
  • refers to the pattern of spacing among individuals within the population boundary?
    population dispersion
  • is the physical area that defines a population?
    population boundary
  • Patterns of dispersion within a population boundary can be?
    clumped, uniform, random
  • is used to study the population size and density of plants and sessile animals?
    Quadrat method
  • Population density formula?
    Population size within the quadrat / Size of the quadrat
  • Mark-recapture method is used to study the population size of mobile organisms
  • The method involves capturing a sample, marking individuals, releasing them back, recapturing a new sample, and calculating the population size based on the ratio of marked and unmarked individuals?
    Mark-recapture method
  • Population size formula in mark-recapture method?
    (M * n) / m