BIOL 261 Study Guide - Final Guide: Rhizosphere, Geospiza, Banff National Park
23 Apr 2018
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Lecture #2: january 12th 2018 quantification of community structure: Part five community ecology: the prairies of north america once covered a large portion of the continent. It(cid:1685)s a dry area and some people argued that the rockies formed after the prairies. On the other side of the rockies there isn(cid:1685)t much rains (shinook) and that(cid:1685)s why it is dry. Do species all play the same function in the community? very dominant, what makes them so dominant?) Chapter 16 community structure: a broad definition of an ecological community is a group of species that occupy a given area, interacting either directly or indirectly. Same place, same time and interact with one another directly or indirectly. Herbivores (insect) but the pollinators and pollinates the plants so the pollinator has a positive impact on the insect herbivore: species richness (s) is the count of the number of species occurring within the community.
