ISB 202 Study Guide - Final Guide: Carrying Capacity, Habitat Destruction, Corrido

• School: MSU
• Department: Integrative Studies Biological
• Course: ISB 202
• Professor: All

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Which is most common and why: random, uniform, and clustered. Clustered is the most common pattern because resources are usually clustered: what is population dispersal, the movement of organisms from one area to another, describe immigration, emigration and migration. a. Give examples: pecking order, alpha males and females, dominant males, matriarchal (dominant females) Dominance hierarchy: a system or set of relationships in animal groups that is based on a hierarchical ranking. J curve is exponentially increasing (r) a: s curve starts off increasing exponentially but eventually levels off (k, explain what carrying capacity is. Biodiversity 10/19-10/21: the variation of life forms within a given ecosystem, biome, or for the entire earth. What right do we have to bring species to products: environmental (ecological) services, photosynthesis, biological control, soil formation and erosion control d. Why: conversion to agriculture, urban sprawl, climate change, conversion to agriculture, create monocultures, pollution, greatly reduced complexity, greatly reduced biodiversity, fertilizers, pesticides.