BILD 3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: California Floristic Province, Species Ii, Dall Sheep
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Includes portions of southern oregon and northern baja: ca west of the deserts. B: variable with respect to climate, topography, geology, and soil characteristics, compared to other parts of north america, the ca flora has, high diversity: 8,000 species, 3,488 natives. Population ecology: density & dispersion, demography - life tables, life histories, modeling population growth , geometric and exponential growth, logistic growth, density dependence. Mark - recapture: capture 1st sample of animals, mark those animals, release, capture or count a 2nd sample of animals, count how many of those are marked (recaptured, mark - recapture: example with northern fur seal pups. Patterns of dispersion: random , uniform , or clumped spatial distributions, what factors influence the spacing of individuals in a population, random, position of each individual is independent of others, clumped. Influenced by resource availability or social interactions: uniform dispersion.
