BSC 2011 Midterm: Ecology Exam Study Guide

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Biology - Biological Sciences
• Course: BSC 2011
• Professor: S T A F F

Document Summary

Identify terrestrial biomes by their: climate, growing season length, dominant vegetation, and vegetation structure. Identify aquatic biomes by their: salinity, water movement, water depth, and temperature. Fecundity- number of offspring per event: life table- used for determining changes in population size; summarizes age- xi. Principle allocation- once an organism has acquired a unit of some resource, xii. Carrying capacity- when the population size stops changing it reaches an specific data on survival and fecundity, usually only for females it can be used for only one function at a time equilibrium size. Identify the main drivers of population change over time. life history? i. ii. 0, greater than 0, or equal to 0: greater than- the population grows, less than- the population shrinks, equal to- the population size does not change, equilibrium, explain resource availability and physical conditions impact on life history. Greater availability allows for more functions to be met.