Read chapters 8 and 9
also specific pages on carrying capacity, fisheries, and maximum sustainable
yield, pages 11, 305, 588 and 649-651.
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Chapter 8: keystone species
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Chapter 9: intrinsic rate of increase (r) other pages: yield |
Explain global patterns of species diversity (such as illustrated in Figure 8-3).
List four characteristics of the structure of a community or ecosystem. Compare species abundance to species diversity.
Describe the species equilibrium model, also known as the theory of island biogeography.
List the roles that keystone species can play in determining community structure.
Describe resource partitioning and give an example.
Compare and constrast the three major types of symbiosis.
Describe the process of succession. Compare primary and secondary succession.
Explain why an intermediate level of disturbance is thought to give the highest biodiversity and ecosystem stability.
What two factors determine the number of different species on an island.
How would you determine whether a particular species was a keystone species?
Describe the difference between exponential and logistic growth patterns.
How does negative growth rate explain oscillations or crashes in populations (see figures 9-5 and 9-6)?
Compare "r-selected" and "k-selected" species characteristics.
Describe how the maximum sustainable yield relates to the carrying capacity in the logistic model of growth.
Explain why the maximum sustainable yield is in the middle of the logistic growth curve rather than at the highest population density.
What is the difference between "conservation biology" and "wildlife management"? Whis is this difference important?
Describe several major human impacts on natural ecosystems.
What are several major principles of sustainable ecosystems?